Re: [fuse-devel] Making mountpoint inaccessible

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

Sven Utcke <sve...@pu...> writes:
> Hello Nikolaus,
>
>> Is there a way from within the file system to make the mountpoint
>> inaccessible? I would like to have the same effect as if the file
>> system process had crashed, only that it's still running.
>
> Just return whatever it is that accessing a mountpoint with a crashed
> filesystem returns?  But somehow I'm missing the point...

In case of a fatal error in the file system, I'd like to signal this by
making the mountpoint inaccessible and ending the file system process.

However, during testing I discovered that a fatal error often leads to
hanging (non-fuse started) background threads which prevent the process
from terminating.

So, since I'm no longer in the FUSE main loop, I can't return the error
codes myself. So I'd like to somehow tell FUSE that nothing useful is
going to come from this file system process anymore, even if it's still
running.


Best,

   -Nikolaus

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