Re: [fuse-devel] special FUSE ioctl

[Anand A. <av...@zr...>]

Can you show a case where setxattr doesnt work for you and only ioctl does?.
xattr is a much more powerful and portable interface (you can get the
'ioctl'-equivalent work done in shell scripts too)

avati

2007/7/12, nf2 <nf...@sc...>:
>
> hi,
>
> i know this has been discussed several times here and i understand that
> it's not possible to forward generic ioctl's to fuse filesystems...
>
> but would it be possible to have a special fuse-ioctl (always the same
> ioctl op-code) where the data-buffer has a well known structure (a
> leading "FuseIoctlHeader" - and the rest is user-data...
>
> typedef struct
> {
>     int32 fuse_filesystem_to_address /* how??? */
>     int32 sub_opcode;
>     int32 data_size;
>     int32 magic_number; /* just for additional security - to check the
> correct size of the header */
> } FuseIoctlHeader
>
>
> norbert
>
>
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Anand V. Avati