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From: Horst Birthelmer <horst@birthelmer.de>
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 07:49:25PM +0100, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> 
> 
...
> > The problem Luis had was that he cannot construct the second request in the compound correctly
> > since he does not have all the in parameters to write complete request.
> 
> What I mean is, the auto-handler of libfuse could complete requests of
> the 2nd compound request with those of the 1st request?
> 
With a crazy bunch of flags, we could probably do it, yes.
It is way easier that the fuse server treats certain compounds
(combination of operations) as a single request and handles
those accordingly.

> >> Thanks,
> >> Bernd
> > 
> > Horst
>