Messages in this thread | | | Subject | [ANNOUNCE] FUSD v1.10 now available | Date | Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:53:49 -0700 | From | Jeremy Elson <> |
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We're happy to announce release 1.10 of FUSD, the Linux Framework for User-Space Devices.
If you have a Linux 2.4 kernel running devfs, FUSD is a combination of Linux kernel module and userspace library that lets you write userspace programs that can act as character device drivers for files under /dev. Your program reigsters the device with the kernel module; then, it proxies system calls (e.g., open(), read()...) to your program. Your userspace program can respond to these system calls as a kernel module would. Strict error checking at the user/kernel boundary prevents such userspace drivers from corrupting each other, the kernel, or even the processes using the devices they manage.
v1.10 has a number of enhancements, including: -- Now safe for SMP and preemptible kernels
-- Includes both C and Python bindings
-- /dev/fusd/status device shows a summary of devices registered and in use
-- Updated documentation and various other bugfixes
Unfortunately, FUSD does NOT work under later 2.5 or any 2.6 kernels. The recent changes to the devfs API break FUSD in a way that we haven't yet looked into fixing.
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