Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations

[Tejun Heo]

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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