Re: [Libguestfs] virt-sysprep future

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:00:53AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > (1) We add FUSE support directly to the API, linking with libfuse. > This is essentially the same as what was outlined in link [i] back in > December 2011. [...] > The problem with (1) is that we are not confident that it's a good > idea to use libfuse as a true library. It doesn't appear that anyone > else is using it this way. I'll also add that libfuse makes it tricky to use multiple handles. Specifically, FUSE callbacks get no context at all, eg: getattr's parameters are: static int getattr (const char *path, struct stat *statbuf); If libfuse could be called from multiple threads, each with its own handle, then how would you know which handle to use? (The answer possibly involves using thread-local storage, but that's hairy if either handle is multithreaded).