Re: [fuse-devel] Triggering unmounts

[Miklos S. <mi...@sz...>]

On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, Alex deVries wrote:
> I have a fuse filesystem (afpfs-ng) and I'm having some threading  
> problems.  I need to have multiple fuse threads running within the  
> same daemon.  I'm trying to figure out how to kill one of these  
> threads from a parent.
> 
> Below is a small program that shows this.  It launches a thread which  
> calls fuse_main().  The .init callback records the context.  The  
> program then waits 5 seconds, and calls fuse_exit(context->fuse).
> 
> When I run it, it will do the mount properly but it never gets to the  
> end of the mounting thread and the entry is never removed from /proc/ 
> mounts.
> 
> I'm guessing that calling fuse_exit() isn't the right way to kill off  
> the mount, but what is the right way?

Sending a signal (e.g. SIGHUP) to the thread that called fuse_main()
should do the trick.

Thanks,
Miklos