Re: [Chicken-users] a file system using Chicken

[Matthew Welland]

On Thursday 07 June 2007 01:34:42 pm Dan Muresan wrote:
> Thanks Arto.
>
> > Also, the existing FUSE bindings for Ruby and Python appear to have
> > achieved stability on a number of platforms and may be worth looking
> > at for tips and tricks.

Perhaps also look at the stklos fuse implemention: 
http://www.stklos.org/extensions.html

Also, does chicken have native threads available? I'm under the impression 
that native threads are needed if you want multiple processes to be 
accessing files on a fuse fs simultaneously. Stklos does native threads but 
I wasn't able to get the stklos/fuse package to compile/install on my 
system and try it out.

> I'm not so sure about that. I distinctly remember it was a bitch to
> compile a Python-based filesystem (something along the lines of "the old
> bindings are no longer valid, the new ones rely on the unstable devel
> branch of fuse").
>
> But I'd like to invite everyone who has a bit of time to look at the end
> of /usr/include/fuse/fuse.h and fuse_common.h (the "compatibility" macro
> mess). Fuse uses tricks like
>
> int func (int);
>
> #if API_VERSION == 22
> #define func compat_func22
> #endif
>
> (where of course compat_func22 has a different number of arguments).
> This really doesn't work with SWIG, as SWIG only considers the first
> declaration and doesn't do anything with the #define. Why the Fuse
> people felt it was a good ideea to use this hack, and to constantly
> change the signature of various functions, I don't know.
>
> I also don't know what a good solution would be, given the constantly
> shifting Fuse API and its un-swiggable nature. I'm open to input.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Dan
>
>
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