Re: [fuse-devel] libfuse 2.X

[Nikolaus R. <Nik...@ra...>]

On Feb 09 2016, Luca Risolia <luc...@pu...> wrote:
> On 09/02/2016 10:42, Jean-Pierre André wrote:
>> In other words, projects relying on libfuse2 are going
>> to be deprecated...
>
> I am worried. Could you please *clearly state* what libfuse3 is going to 
> break in terms of API and ABI?

To be certain, you have to compare the codes. Miklos started libfuse3
several years ago, and I don't think there's a definitive record of the
changes. Some things that I remember:

* readdirplus support
* some datatypes changed (e.g. fuse_ino_t now has the same type as ino_t)

I was also pretty sure that FUSE3 no longer uses the entire channel
abstraction (struct fuse_chan) because FUSE only ever used just one
channel. But looking at fuse_lowlevel.h, it's actually still present. I
should look into that...


Best,
-Nikolaus

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