Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:18:53 +0000 (21 22:18 +0100)]
Version 1.1.8.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 21 Jun 2014 11:39:26 +0000 (21 12:39 +0100)]
Add Curl plugin for HTTP/FTP/etc.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 20 Jun 2014 21:46:02 +0000 (20 22:46 +0100)]
Version 1.1.7.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 20 Jun 2014 21:05:13 +0000 (20 22:05 +0100)]
Fix parsing of long options.
Unknown long options would cause a segfault, because the list of long
options was not NULL-terminated. Oops.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 20 Jun 2014 21:00:19 +0000 (20 22:00 +0100)]
Document signals handled by the server.
However don't document SIGHUP, since in future we might want this to
do something different, eg. reload configuration.
Thanks: Cristian Ciupitu.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sun, 16 Feb 2014 12:10:01 +0000 (16 12:10 +0000)]
tests: Test the nbdkit command line more thoroughly.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sun, 16 Feb 2014 12:55:48 +0000 (16 12:55 +0000)]
Don't pass NULL pointer to asprintf when generating --run command.
This fixes commit
4ce0dbc3f425e6d609cc6739dac8c23b44b1c61b.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sun, 16 Feb 2014 10:50:51 +0000 (16 10:50 +0000)]
Version 1.1.6.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:55:46 +0000 (16 09:55 +0000)]
Add --run option to run captive nbdkit.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 15 Feb 2014 13:48:38 +0000 (15 13:48 +0000)]
docs: Link to Perl & Python plugins from main nbdkit(1) man page.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 15 Feb 2014 11:40:41 +0000 (15 11:40 +0000)]
docs: Add documentation for installing the plugin and writing plugins in other languages.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 15 Feb 2014 09:11:36 +0000 (15 09:11 +0000)]
tests: Enable maximal debugging.
The debugging is written to the tests/*.log files. Make sure we
collect as much debugging as possible in case there are any problems.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 15 Feb 2014 09:11:17 +0000 (15 09:11 +0000)]
tests: Add a comment about use of temporary directories.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 15 Feb 2014 09:03:02 +0000 (15 09:03 +0000)]
python: Add a test for the Python plugin.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 15 Feb 2014 08:49:25 +0000 (15 08:49 +0000)]
perl: Add a test for the Perl plugin.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 15 Feb 2014 08:30:05 +0000 (15 08:30 +0000)]
README: Clarify and fix dependencies.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 15 Feb 2014 07:35:51 +0000 (15 07:35 +0000)]
Version 1.1.5.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 15 Feb 2014 07:36:54 +0000 (15 07:36 +0000)]
python: Fix name of example script in EXTRA_DIST.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:17:15 +0000 (10 15:17 +0100)]
python: New plugin that lets you write plugins as Python scripts.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 14 Feb 2014 17:40:23 +0000 (14 17:40 +0000)]
perl: Fix typo'd function name in manual page.
Hilko Bengen [Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:54:29 +0000 (13 18:54 +0100)]
Retrieve libperl linking information from ExtUtils::Embed as suggested by perlembed(1)
perl -MConfig -e 'print $Config{ldflags}' gave me
-lgdbm -lgdbm_compat -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
with Perl 5.18 as configured on Debian/unstable.
Hilko Bengen [Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:51:48 +0000 (13 18:51 +0100)]
Work around what seems like an bug in automake 1.14
"AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(foreign) dnl ..." seems to trigger Debian bug#738716
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:50:09 +0000 (10 14:50 +0100)]
docs: Fix man page name in various plugin man pages.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:48:11 +0000 (10 14:48 +0100)]
docs: Link to nbdkit-perl-plugin(3) in the nbdkit-plugin(3) man page.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:47:56 +0000 (10 14:47 +0100)]
perl: Enhance nbdkit-perl-plugin man page.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:47:30 +0000 (10 14:47 +0100)]
perl: Move nbdkit-perl-plugin man page to section 3.
Since it's a programming man page.
This fixes commit
6edf6b4e261011342c40e871231d8430db31f490.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:46:41 +0000 (10 14:46 +0100)]
perl: Enhance documentation for example plugin.
This fixes commit
6edf6b4e261011342c40e871231d8430db31f490.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:47:57 +0000 (10 12:47 +0100)]
Version 1.1.4.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:50:56 +0000 (10 12:50 +0100)]
Add Perl example to EXTRA_DIST.
This fixes commit
6edf6b4e261011342c40e871231d8430db31f490.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 6 Feb 2014 13:42:38 +0000 (6 13:42 +0000)]
perl: New plugin lets you write plugins as Perl scripts.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 6 Feb 2014 13:21:37 +0000 (6 13:21 +0000)]
Update TODO file with further ideas.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 6 Feb 2014 13:20:01 +0000 (6 13:20 +0000)]
Add nbdkit --dump-config option to print libdir, plugindir.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 6 Feb 2014 13:10:42 +0000 (6 13:10 +0000)]
Add a shorter syntax for plugin names.
You can now write:
nbdkit gzip [args..]
instead of having to specify the plugin directory:
nbdkit /usr/lib64/nbdkit/plugins/nbdkit-gzip-plugin.so
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 6 Feb 2014 11:26:00 +0000 (6 11:26 +0000)]
src: Refactor dlopen into separate function.
This is just code motion.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 6 Feb 2014 11:17:26 +0000 (6 11:17 +0000)]
plugins: Fix small typo in man pages.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:31:13 +0000 (23 13:31 +0100)]
nbdkit: Fix documentation for -U option.
nbdkit -U does create the socket which is not what was stated in the
documentation before. However the permissions are likely to be too
permissive by default, so note how the caller can protect the socket.
Also the caller will probably want to delete the socket file
afterwards.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sun, 4 Aug 2013 21:37:42 +0000 (4 22:37 +0100)]
Version 1.1.3.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sun, 4 Aug 2013 21:33:17 +0000 (4 22:33 +0100)]
tests: Use check_LTLIBRARIES instead of noinst_LTLIBRARIES.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sun, 4 Aug 2013 21:30:54 +0000 (4 22:30 +0100)]
tests: Use check_DATA instead of noinst_DATA for test files.
This prevents the files needing to be created / guestfish being run
outside 'make check'.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sun, 4 Aug 2013 21:32:01 +0000 (4 22:32 +0100)]
Ignore test files.
Michael Scherer [Sun, 21 Jul 2013 20:59:28 +0000 (21 21:59 +0100)]
'struct sockaddr' is not large enough to store a general sockaddr.
In particular, if IPv6 is used, then sizeof sockaddr_in6 > sizeof sockaddr,
resulting in a segfault:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=986601
RWMJ:
- Minor formatting
- Free tls->addr on normal exit path
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:04:49 +0000 (16 12:04 +0100)]
Version 1.1.2.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:03:40 +0000 (16 12:03 +0100)]
docs: Add complete list of plugins to nbdkit(1).
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 27 Jun 2013 13:11:48 +0000 (27 14:11 +0100)]
Add VMware VDDK plugin.
This can currently only access VMDK files, but it would not be hard to
extend it to access ESX servers and Virtual Center.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:15:50 +0000 (27 12:15 +0100)]
README: Add guestfish, needed to run some parts of the test suite.
This updates commit
3030b5c61074eb9a2b9348049c6e2891bca718e3.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:02:34 +0000 (27 12:02 +0100)]
Add build instructions to README file.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 27 Jun 2013 10:56:01 +0000 (27 11:56 +0100)]
Update TODO.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:51:44 +0000 (25 23:51 +0100)]
Small tweak to README file.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:37:35 +0000 (25 23:37 +0100)]
tests: Add test of file plugin.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:37:17 +0000 (25 23:37 +0100)]
tests: Remove unnecessary comment from code.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:22:03 +0000 (25 23:22 +0100)]
tests: Add a test of the xz plugin.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:16:29 +0000 (25 23:16 +0100)]
tests: Add a test of the gzip plugin.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 25 Jun 2013 21:22:49 +0000 (25 22:22 +0100)]
Version 1.1.1
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 25 Jun 2013 20:21:39 +0000 (25 21:21 +0100)]
Add test framework and some tests.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 25 Jun 2013 20:50:18 +0000 (25 21:50 +0100)]
server: Fix -U option so it copies trailing ASCII NUL character.
The existing code calculated the length of the string to copy
incorrectly, resulting in it creating a garbage socket name.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:31:28 +0000 (25 13:31 +0100)]
Add libguestfs plugin.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:34:20 +0000 (24 19:34 +0100)]
New development branch.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:09:49 +0000 (24 19:09 +0100)]
plugins/example3: Minor typo in man page.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:35:15 +0000 (24 15:35 +0100)]
Version 1.0.0.
Declare the interface stable.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:43:20 +0000 (24 15:43 +0100)]
plugins/xz: Fix debug vs error mixup.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:36:47 +0000 (24 15:36 +0100)]
plugins/example1: Fix EXTRA_DIST rule.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:34:02 +0000 (24 15:34 +0100)]
Update TODO file.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:32:04 +0000 (24 15:32 +0100)]
xz: Add a reasonable block cache.
LRU with a default depth of 8.
Random access to a Windows guest gets ~85% hit rate, which is
considerably better than the < 30% hit rate achieved by the previous
effort.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 24 Jun 2013 13:40:50 +0000 (24 14:40 +0100)]
Update TODO file.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:39:52 +0000 (24 13:39 +0100)]
xzfile: lzma_code does not necessarily consume all input.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 22 Jun 2013 12:39:36 +0000 (22 13:39 +0100)]
Add xz plugin.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:20:02 +0000 (24 12:20 +0100)]
nbdkit_parse_size: Fix parsing of numbers followed by qualifier character.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 22 Jun 2013 12:54:18 +0000 (22 13:54 +0100)]
plugins: Rename from libnbdkit-foo to nbdkit-foo-plugin.
libtool supports the -module option which stops it from whinging about
filenames.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 22 Jun 2013 10:26:09 +0000 (22 11:26 +0100)]
doc: Add a note about using your own mutexes in plugins.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:56:56 +0000 (21 17:56 +0100)]
Add gzip plugin.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:20:18 +0000 (21 18:20 +0100)]
server: If plugin data call doesn't set errno, return EIO.
Ensure that *error is set to something, else we do undesirable things
like reading garbage data or ignore writes without indicating to the
client that there was an error.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:58:46 +0000 (21 17:58 +0100)]
server: Add gcc format attribute to detect errors in nbdkit_error/nbdkit_debug.
Also fix one actual bug.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:56:13 +0000 (21 17:56 +0100)]
server: Add nbdkit_v{debug,error} va args variants.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:41:26 +0000 (21 16:41 +0100)]
Add file plugin.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:55:18 +0000 (21 17:55 +0100)]
gitignore: Ignore gdb history file.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:58:21 +0000 (21 16:58 +0100)]
Change the open call to pass in the 'readonly' flag.
Not ABI stable quite yet, but soon ...
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:15:55 +0000 (21 16:15 +0100)]
server: Make the usage output more readable.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:15:32 +0000 (21 16:15 +0100)]
docs: Link to plugin man pages from nbdkit(1).
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:27:11 +0000 (21 14:27 +0100)]
Add a libvirt plugin.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:26:56 +0000 (21 15:26 +0100)]
server: Fix command line parsing when there are multiple parameters.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:06:03 +0000 (21 14:06 +0100)]
Add developer information to the README file.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:57:12 +0000 (21 13:57 +0100)]
plugins: Don't created versioned libraries (ie. no *.so.0* files).
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:27:31 +0000 (21 13:27 +0100)]
dist: Add correct EXTRA_DIST rules.
Also add CLEANFILES everywhere.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:13:01 +0000 (21 12:13 +0100)]
Add third example plugin, fix existing plugins.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:50:04 +0000 (21 10:50 +0100)]
Update README.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:51:53 +0000 (15 16:51 +0100)]
Implement nbdkit server.
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:46:30 +0000 (12 18:46 +0100)]
Document the plugin API.
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:38:48 +0000 (12 15:38 +0100)]
Add initial sources.
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:49:26 +0000 (12 16:49 +0100)]
Further configuration updates.
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:00:03 +0000 (12 14:00 +0100)]
Set up configure environment.