Re: [fuse-devel] Handle each mountpoint in other thread

[Stef B. <st...@gm...>]

I do not know it's possible, but I'm not an expert.
It looks a bit like multi session mounts of cifs. Look at the website
of cifs-utils and maillist.
Maybe usefull.

Stef

2010/5/30 Tomasz Jankowski <to...@gm...>:
> Hello!
>
> I'm new to FUSE (and it's API) and I'm a bit confused about it. Want I want
> to do is to implement simple network file system. One of main goals is to
> handle each mounted resource (fuse mountpoint) in separated thread. However
> I'm not sure how to set up FUSE library properly and handle I/O requests in
> thread-safe way.
>
> Please verify my pseudo code:
>
> For each new shared folder I have to run:
>
> channel = fuse_mount(...);
>
> handle = fuse_new(channel, ...);
>
>
> And then I can run a new thread:
>
> session = fuse_get_session(handle);
> channel = fuse_session_next_chan(session);   // According to API reference
> fuse_session can handle only one channel now
> buffer = malloc(fuse_chan_bufsize(channel));
> descriptor = fuse_chan_fd(channel);
> while(fuse_session_exited(session) == 0)
> {
>
> return_value = select(..., descriptor + TCP socket related to this
> mountpoint, ...);
>
> if (return_calue > 0)
>
> {
>
> // Handle FUSE request
>
> fuse_chan_recv(channel,buffer,...);
>
> fuse_session_process(session, ...,buffer, ..., channel);
>
> // Handle other descriptors
> ...
>
> }
>
> }
> free(buffer)
> fuse_session_exit(session);
> fuse_umount(..., channel);
> fuse_destroy(handle);
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> fuse-devel mailing list
> fus...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fuse-devel
>