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SubjectRe: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, take #2
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On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > I removed ->unrestricted_ioctl() and associated code because it really
> > doesn't make any sense: the high level lib won't be used for CUSE
> > stuff, otherwise unrestrited ioctls are not allowed (and the interface
> > is rather horrible anyway).
>
> Well, CUSE highlevel interface piggy backs on FUSE so it requires
> unrestricted_ioctl() there for it and ossp does use it.

I thought it uses the lowlevel interface. Why doesn't it do that?

For CUSE there's really no point in going through high level
interface, since there's just one file involved, so the path name
generation (the main feature of the highlevel lib) doesn't make any
sense.

Thanks,
Miklos


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