[Avf-fuse-dev] known problem in stable series

[Valient G. <vg...@po...>]

There is a bug related to client aborts and open files which is fixed in
CVS but has not made it to the stable series.  If a client is aborted,
it seems that the open files are not closed / released to the FUSE
program.  FUSE CVS does not have this problem..

A user of my filesystem (Jim Darby) reported it as a potential bug in my
filesystem, along with a simple test case, which triggers the proglem
when using FUSE 1.3.

Test case:

   sleep 10 > foo

before the sleep finishes, abort it with ctrl-C, and the FUSE client
never receives a release for the open file foo.  I've confirmed that it
happens to me as well under FUSE 1.3 and not under FUSE CVS.

Because fuse 1.3 lacks support for delete of open files, my filesystem
refuses to unlink open files under 1.3, and so the file remains open and
non-deletable until the filesystem is unmounted, which is what caused
the problem to be noticed.

I've been using the CVS version for some time, and it seems stable.  Any
plans on what will go into the next stable release?

regards,
Valient