Bug 646822

Summary: libguestfs trace mode should not print long binary strings
Product: [Community] Virtualization Tools Reporter: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component: libguestfsAssignee: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2010-10-26 11:44:45 UTC
Description of problem:

eg. Tracing guestfs_pwrite can print out 2 MB of binary
data.  We should either hide this, escape it, and/or truncate
it.

See Matt's suggested patch on the list:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-October/msg00071.html

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

libguestfs 1.5.23.

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2010-10-26 13:10:50 UTC
Patch posted:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-October/msg00073.html