[libvirt] [PATCH v7 2/6] add fuse support for libvirt lxc

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 05:12:59PM +0800, Gao feng wrote:
> 于 2012年11月07日 16:58, Richard W.M. Jones 写道:
> > More specifically, this is how the libguestfs API works:
> > 
> >   Main thread                                Other thread
> >   -----------------------------              ---------------------
> > 
> >   guestfs_mount_local (g, "/mntpoint");
> > 
> >        calls: fuse_mount
> >               fuse_chan_fd
> >               fuse_new
> > 
> >   fork () or pthread_create () --creates-->   Start to access the
> >                                               /mntpoint; blocks until
> > 					      main thread calls fuse_loop
> 
> I don't know how the blocking thread is implemented? by fuse self or libguestfs?

The system calls block until FUSE is ready to handle them, so in other
words, FUSE/kernel handles it.

Rich.

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