More libguestfs progress

Now with added ls!

><fs> mount /dev/sda1 /
><fs> ll /
total 13
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  1024 Apr  4 04:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root     0 Apr  4 11:36 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     0 Apr  4 04:40 goodbye
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     0 Apr  3 17:23 hello
drwx------  2 root root 12288 Apr  3 15:27 lost+found
><fs> touch /testing-1-2-3
><fs> ll /
total 13
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  1024 Apr  4 11:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root     0 Apr  4 11:36 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     0 Apr  4 04:40 goodbye
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     0 Apr  3 17:23 hello
drwx------  2 root root 12288 Apr  3 15:27 lost+found
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     0 Apr  4 11:37 testing-1-2-3

The more serious point to that was to make sure that the RPC protocol we’re using (based on XDR) can transfer strings and lists of strings in both directions, which will be necessary for the device / LV enumeration APIs.

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