Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755394AbYH1SYr (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:24:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754244AbYH1SYf (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:24:35 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:41772 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753427AbYH1SYf (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:24:35 -0400 Message-ID: <48B6ED12.206@kernel.org> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:23:14 +0200 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20071114) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Miklos Szeredi CC: fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations References: <1219945263-21074-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (hera.kernel.org [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:24:29 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 917 Lines: 29 Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Guessing that CUSE stands for "Character Devices in Userspace"? Yeap, right. > Is there a description of this? It's for sound device emulation, > right? I did it for OSS emulation but it can be used for anything. Hmm... I'm still in the process of pushing out patches, so please wait just a bit. The libfuse changes include simple examples so that should make things a bit clearer. > What is direct-lseek for? It doesn't sound like a feature needed by > char devices. Sound device just sets nonseekable. The direct lseek bit is for API completeness as there are chardevs which have special semantics regarding lseek. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/