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SubjectRe: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Tejun Heo wrote:
> I don't really mind people doing strange things in userland as long as
> it's safe but you're the maintainer. It's a bit strange to export the
> feature only for CUSE, so I'm a little bit hesitant.

You are starting from the fact that ioctl is a good API. It's not,
it's a bad API, so I don't want to encourage the use of it.

> I wanna make it
> useful for both. So, at the kernel level, only well formed for FUSE and
> everything goes for CUSE. Does that sound good enough?

With additional restrictions for ptraceability yes. But if you just
restrict it to CUSE at first, that's fine by me as well :)

Thanks,
Miklos


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