On Sat, 2 Aug 2014 12:02:24 +0200 <u-codalist-z...@aetey.se> wrote: > Does FUSE provide a suitable counterpart to the pioctl?
It should be possible to implement pioctls using ioctls or xattrs (both of which FUSE supports, iirc). If I were to ever spend more time on the openafs FUSE implementation, that is the route I assumed I would take to get pioctl support. (I think I talked a little about this during some presentation; I can find a link if anyone wants.) Representing them as xattrs I think has other benefits, too, even without FUSE, since it becomes a lot easier to read/write them from tools that are aware of xattrs but are not aware of AFS or Coda or anything like that, if you expose them as xattrs on the actual relevant files. But I seem to recall there may be some obstacles in that approach; and I never got to actually trying to implement it, so there might be other issues I never even thought of :) -- Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net
