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List:       fuse-devel
Subject:    Re: [fuse-devel] VxWorks / RT11 Filesystem
From:       Miklos Szeredi <miklos () szeredi ! hu>
Date:       2007-04-11 10:12:49
Message-ID: E1HbZon-00054Z-00 () dorka ! pomaz ! szeredi ! hu
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> I'm new to kernel/filesystem programming.  I'm attempting to
> reverse engineer the RT11 filesystem used by VxWorks so that
> we can read/write the filesystem under Linux to transfer files.
> 
> So far, I have some mtools style commands and a small library
> that allows me to access a drive with this filesystem (read-only,
> so far).
> 
> My library uses my rt_fs_init() and glib to set-up a hash table
> of the directory entries.
> 
> The main problem I have is that I don't understand where I get
> the file descriptor in myfuse_init().

What file descriptor?

> I've looked at a few fuse filesystems (fuseisofs, fusewinnt),
> but I still don't quite get this part.  The fuse_init() seems
> to use a connection, while most of the other operations use
> a fuse_file_info.  Is the fuse_init() the wrong place to
> setup the hashtable?

It is the right place.  Another right place is to set them up before
calling fuse_main().   Both methods should work fine.

Miklos

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