Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Tejun Heo wrote:
> This patchset extends FUSE such that it supports more file operations
> and is consisted of the following seven patches.
> 
>   0001-FUSE-add-include-protectors.patch
>   0002-FUSE-pass-nonblock-flag-to-client.patch
>   0003-FUSE-implement-nonseekable-open.patch
>   0004-FUSE-implement-direct-lseek-support.patch
>   0005-FUSE-implement-ioctl-support.patch
>   0006-FUSE-implement-unsolicited-notification.patch
>   0007-FUSE-implement-poll-support.patch
> 
> The added features will be used primarily for CUSE but can be used by
> any FUSE client.  Accompanying libfuse updates will be posted
> separately.

Guessing that CUSE stands for "Character Devices in Userspace"?

Is there a description of this?  It's for sound device emulation,
right?

What is direct-lseek for?  It doesn't sound like a feature needed by
char devices.

Thanks,
Miklos
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