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Date:      Tue, 08 Aug 2017 13:11:54 +0200
From:      Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: State of FUSE on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <87shh2wbyd.fsf@vostro.rath.org>
In-Reply-To: <91E457A2-2DE9-4EAB-B5B2-3EF304254DE2@gmail.com> (Ben RUBSON's message of "Tue, 8 Aug 2017 09:26:15 %2B0200")
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On Aug 08 2017, Ben RUBSON <ben.rubson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 06 Aug 2017, at 19:40, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> wrote:
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>> On Aug 06 2017, Ben RUBSON <ben.rubson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 03 Aug 2017, at 22:22, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote:
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>>>> On 3/8/17 7:38 pm, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
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>>>>> I am the upstream maintainer of libfuse. I'd like to refresh / improve
>>>>> the FreeBSD support in libfuse. My goal is for libfuse not to require
>>>>> any FreeBSD specific patches.
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>>>> Hi, great to hear from you!
>>>> at $JOB we use libfuse and We have always worried that we don't really
>>>> have anyone in FreeBSD that really has fuse as a priority.
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>>> Glad to hear from Nikolaus too, seeing that efforts are taken to keep
>>> libfuse FreeBSD compatible out of the box ! For sure this is great !
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>>> I also hugely use fuse, so having it to work correctly (at least
>>> bug-free) is mandatory for me.
>>=20
>> Would you mind testing the newest libfuse release then?
>
> I just tested to compile it out of the box, it seems to fail :
> https://benrubson.github.io/fuse.log

So what fails is just one of the examples, that's good news. Worst case
we can disable it. Can I browse the FreeBSD manpages for fstatat() and
openat() somewhere? Maybe there are equivalent flags that I could use.

>
> Note that we are still running 2.9(.5) version on FreeBSD :
> http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/fusefs-libs/

Yeah. I hope I can help you to provide libfuse3 as well.

Best,
-Nikolaus

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