Download/ploop/1.14/changes

Changes

Since version 1.13.2:

New functionality

• ploop init: add --nolazy
• ploop snapshot-merge: add -U
• ploop_create_param: add flags, define NOLAZY flag
• do_ioctl(): run lsof on EBUSY
• Add pkg-config support

Fixes

• Fix restore-descriptor for raw images
• ploop_get_top_delta_fname(): use ploop_lock(), return SYSEXIT_*
• Fix POWER compilation
• ploop_create_image(): do not return -1, use SYSEXIT_* code
• ploop snapshot-switch: fix SIGSEGV parsing cmdline
• is_xml_fname(): fix a potential SIGSEGV

Improvements

• do_ioctl(): implement exponential wait time
• mount.ploop: check if mtab is not symlink
• ploop_replace_image: use mkstemp() not mktemp()
• print_sys_block_ploop(): more compact output
• ploop_umount_image(): simplify unlock on return
• make_fs(): don't hardcode argv index
• read_diskdescriptor(): remove
• tools/Makefile: fix LDLIBS to avoid overlinking

Documentation

• ploop(8): document --nolazy flag for ploop init
• ploop(8): document -U for ploop snapshot-merge
• include/libploop.h: document mount and snapshot switch params

Build system

• Makefiles: move -lpthread to the proper place
• ploop.spec: fix a date in %changelog
• ploop.spec: no %attr for symlink

For the complete list of changes in this release, see git changelog for ploop-1.14.