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On 09/02/21 17:29, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> The mmap() call itself. Of course you need to touch code.
> Maybe just cuse_lowlevel.c, maybe kernel too.

A patch had been submitted some years ago, more than once, asking for 
inclusion in the kernel, but facts are that at that time nobody in the 
FUSE group considered it. So much work and time lost, unfortunately.