-Fuse version 0.06
-=================
+Fuse perl bindings
+==================
Fuse is combination of Linux kernel module and user space library which
enables you to write user-space filesystems. This module enables you to
This is a pre-production release. It seems to work quite well. In fact, I
can't find any problems with it whatsoever. If you do, I want to know.
+Support for FreeBSD is experimental, so expect tests to fail.
INSTALLATION
See http://fuse.sourceforge.net/
If you intend to use FUSE in threaded mode, you need a version of Perl which
-has been compiled with USE_ITHREADS.
+has been compiled with USE_ITHREADS. Then, you need to use threads and
+threads::shared.
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BUGS
-Perl 5.8.7 does not support shared subroutine references. Until this is
-fixed, if you use threaded mode, you need to use symbolic references (i.e.
-passing "main::cb" instead of \&cb). This rules out closures, lexical
-subs and that sort of thing, but it does seem to work.
+At time of writing, Perl (5.8.7) did not support shared subroutine references.
+Symptoms include a cryptic error message like "Invalid value for shared scalar"
+from Fuse.pm. Until this is fixed, if you use threaded mode, you need to use
+symbolic references (i.e. passing "main::cb" instead of \&cb). This doesn't
+allow things like closures, lexical subs and that sort of thing, but it does
+work for me.
The current test framework seems to work well, but the underlying mount/
-unmount infrastructure is a crock. I am not pleased with that code. I
-also wish there was a way to test without root permissions.
+unmount infrastructure is a crock. I am not pleased with that code.
While most things work, I do still have a TODO list:
* "du -sb" reports a couple orders of magnitude too large a size.
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