[Libguestfs] [PATCH v3] New APIs: mount-local, mount-local-run and umount-local using FUSE

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 01:41:42PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> This changes the proposed API slightly.
> 
> Previously 'mount-local' generating a 'mounted' event when the
> filesystem was ready, and from the 'mounted' event you had to
> effectively do a fork.
> 
> Now, 'mount-local' just initializes the mountpoint and you have to
> call 'mount-local-run' to enter the FUSE main loop.  Between these
> calls you can do a fork or whatever other work is needed.

After some discussion and a bit of code review with Matt today, I
pushed this.

However it really could do with even more testing.  Here is an idea:

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/libguestfs-mount-local/

Rich.

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