Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:23:14 +0200 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations |
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Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Guessing that CUSE stands for "Character Devices in Userspace"?
Yeap, right.
> Is there a description of this? It's for sound device emulation, > right?
I did it for OSS emulation but it can be used for anything. Hmm... I'm still in the process of pushing out patches, so please wait just a bit. The libfuse changes include simple examples so that should make things a bit clearer.
> What is direct-lseek for? It doesn't sound like a feature needed by > char devices.
Sound device just sets nonseekable. The direct lseek bit is for API completeness as there are chardevs which have special semantics regarding lseek.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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