Re: FUSE merging?

Miklos Szeredi
2005-09-03T07:23:59Z

> > > The main sticking point with FUSE remains the permission tricks around
> > > fuse_allow_task(). AFAIK it remains the case that nobody has come up with
> > > any better idea, so I'm inclined to merge the thing.
> >
> > Do you promise?
>
> I troll. What others think matters. But at this stage, objections would
> need to be substantial, IMO.

Fair enough.

> We're rather deadlocked on the permission thing, but if we can't
> come up with anything better then I'm inclined to say what-the-hell.

There's no disadvantage IMO. It adds nearly zero complexity. If
someone doesn't like it, it can be configured out in userspace. And
it leaves no legacy interfaces to support if later a better method is
found.

> > I can do a resplit and submit to Linus, if that takes
> > some load off you.
>
> Nah, then I'd just have to check that everything is the same.

OK.

Thanks,
Miklos