[nanomsg] Re: On the use of small integers instead of pointers to identify "sockets"

  • From: Alex Elsayed <eternaleye@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: nanomsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 04:48:25 -0700

On Thursday, September 05, 2013 11:53:56 AM Martin Sustrik wrote:
> On 05/09/13 10:21, Amaury Bouchard wrote:
> >     However, I've made a patch for Linux kernel that would fix that and
> >     allow for implementing true fds in the user space. Unfortunately, I
> >     don't have enough time and morale to push the patch to the mainline.
> > 
> > Maybe it would be easier to write a FUSE driver?
> 
> Same amount of work to get it into the mainline, I guess.
> 
> Martin

FUSE is FileSystem in UsErspace. You don't put it in mainline at all, it has 
ports to the BSDs and OSX in literal form, and a similar system for Windows is 
Dokan.

However, FUSE is a poor match for a socket API. CUSE (Character devices in...) 
doesn't match any better.

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