Re: [fuse-devel] select() or poll() for a fuse FS?

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

> > We're working on a FUSE filesystem to interface with some sensor
> > hardware, and I'd like for my application (which uses this filesystem)
> > to be able to call select() or poll() on a FUSE file descriptor to
> > wait until data is available.  However, it looks like select() always
> > returns immediately.
> >
> > Is there a way to let my FUSE filesystem indicate when data is
> > available for reading, so that select() and poll() will block as
> > expected?
>
>
> Not at present.  It would be nice feature though, added to my todo
> list.


In GlusterFS, we have successfully used fuse_chan_fd(chan) into the epoll
loop and it had worked fine. (Though, in the newer versions we switched back
to a blocking thread for other reasons)

avati