FUSE, pthread and dl

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Fri Jun 25 00:06:29 UTC 2010


On Sunday 20 June 2010 11:35, Jörg Faschingbauer wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 22:02 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> 
> > > in an attempt to build FUSE into Busybox (*) 
> > 
> > What do you mean by "build FUSE into Busybox"?
> 
> FUSE (http://fuse.sourceforge.net) comes with a library which is used by
> user space filesystems to handle /dev/fuse traffic, and a couple of
> executables that help mount filesystems that are implemented using FUSE.

What this traffic to /dev/fuse is needed for?
I thought FUSE is a filesystem, not a library,
that is, no wrappers aroung open/read/close needed.

> The executables are applets, and the library has to make it into Busybox
> "somehow". FUSE will be enabled when somebody selects a FUSE filesytem
> implementation in the config, for exampe unionfs-fuse (I'm doing all
> this for the purpose of getting unionfs-fuse into Busybox).

What unionfs-fuse does (on syscall level)?

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vda


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