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1 /*
2   FUSE: Filesystem in Userspace
3   Copyright (C) 2001-2007  Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
4 
5   This program can be distributed under the terms of the GNU LGPLv2.
6   See the file COPYING.LIB.
7 */
8 
9 #ifndef FUSE_H_
10 #define FUSE_H_
11 
12 /** @file
13  *
14  * This file defines the library interface of FUSE
15  *
16  * IMPORTANT: you should define FUSE_USE_VERSION before including this header.
17  */
18 
19 #include "fuse_common.h"
20 
21 #include <fcntl.h>
22 #include <time.h>
23 #include <sys/types.h>
24 #include <sys/stat.h>
25 #include <sys/statvfs.h>
26 #include <sys/uio.h>
27 
28 #ifdef __cplusplus
29 extern "C" {
30 #endif
31 
32 /* ----------------------------------------------------------- *
33  * Basic FUSE API					       *
34  * ----------------------------------------------------------- */
35 
36 /** Handle for a FUSE filesystem */
37 struct fuse;
38 
39 /**
40  * Readdir flags, passed to ->readdir()
41  */
42 enum fuse_readdir_flags {
43 	/**
44 	 * "Plus" mode.
45 	 *
46 	 * The kernel wants to prefill the inode cache during readdir.  The
47 	 * filesystem may honour this by filling in the attributes and setting
48 	 * FUSE_FILL_DIR_FLAGS for the filler function.  The filesystem may also
49 	 * just ignore this flag completely.
50 	 */
51 	FUSE_READDIR_PLUS = (1 << 0),
52 };
53 
54 enum fuse_fill_dir_flags {
55 	/**
56 	 * "Plus" mode: all file attributes are valid
57 	 *
58 	 * The attributes are used by the kernel to prefill the inode cache
59 	 * during a readdir.
60 	 *
61 	 * It is okay to set FUSE_FILL_DIR_PLUS if FUSE_READDIR_PLUS is not set
62 	 * and vice versa.
63 	 */
64 	FUSE_FILL_DIR_PLUS = (1 << 1),
65 };
66 
67 /** Function to add an entry in a readdir() operation
68  *
69  * The *off* parameter can be any non-zero value that enables the
70  * filesystem to identify the current point in the directory
71  * stream. It does not need to be the actual physical position. A
72  * value of zero is reserved to indicate that seeking in directories
73  * is not supported.
74  *
75  * @param buf the buffer passed to the readdir() operation
76  * @param name the file name of the directory entry
77  * @param stat file attributes, can be NULL
78  * @param off offset of the next entry or zero
79  * @param flags fill flags
80  * @return 1 if buffer is full, zero otherwise
81  */
82 typedef int (*fuse_fill_dir_t) (void *buf, const char *name,
83 				const struct stat *stbuf, off_t off,
84 				enum fuse_fill_dir_flags flags);
85 /**
86  * Configuration of the high-level API
87  *
88  * This structure is initialized from the arguments passed to
89  * fuse_new(), and then passed to the file system's init() handler
90  * which should ensure that the configuration is compatible with the
91  * file system implementation.
92  */
93 struct fuse_config {
94 	/**
95 	 * If `set_gid` is non-zero, the st_gid attribute of each file
96 	 * is overwritten with the value of `gid`.
97 	 */
98 	int set_gid;
99 	unsigned int gid;
100 
101 	/**
102 	 * If `set_uid` is non-zero, the st_uid attribute of each file
103 	 * is overwritten with the value of `uid`.
104 	 */
105 	int set_uid;
106 	unsigned int uid;
107 
108 	/**
109 	 * If `set_mode` is non-zero, the any permissions bits set in
110 	 * `umask` are unset in the st_mode attribute of each file.
111 	 */
112 	int set_mode;
113 	unsigned int umask;
114 
115 	/**
116 	 * The timeout in seconds for which name lookups will be
117 	 * cached.
118 	 */
119 	double entry_timeout;
120 
121 	/**
122 	 * The timeout in seconds for which a negative lookup will be
123 	 * cached. This means, that if file did not exist (lookup
124 	 * retuned ENOENT), the lookup will only be redone after the
125 	 * timeout, and the file/directory will be assumed to not
126 	 * exist until then. A value of zero means that negative
127 	 * lookups are not cached.
128 	 */
129 	double negative_timeout;
130 
131 	/**
132 	 * The timeout in seconds for which file/directory attributes
133 	 * (as returned by e.g. the `getattr` handler) are cached.
134 	 */
135 	double attr_timeout;
136 
137 	/**
138 	 * Allow requests to be interrupted
139 	 */
140 	int intr;
141 
142 	/**
143 	 * Specify which signal number to send to the filesystem when
144 	 * a request is interrupted.  The default is hardcoded to
145 	 * USR1.
146 	 */
147 	int intr_signal;
148 
149 	/**
150 	 * Normally, FUSE assigns inodes to paths only for as long as
151 	 * the kernel is aware of them. With this option inodes are
152 	 * instead remembered for at least this many seconds.  This
153 	 * will require more memory, but may be necessary when using
154 	 * applications that make use of inode numbers.
155 	 *
156 	 * A number of -1 means that inodes will be remembered for the
157 	 * entire life-time of the file-system process.
158 	 */
159 	int remember;
160 
161 	/**
162 	 * The default behavior is that if an open file is deleted,
163 	 * the file is renamed to a hidden file (.fuse_hiddenXXX), and
164 	 * only removed when the file is finally released.  This
165 	 * relieves the filesystem implementation of having to deal
166 	 * with this problem. This option disables the hiding
167 	 * behavior, and files are removed immediately in an unlink
168 	 * operation (or in a rename operation which overwrites an
169 	 * existing file).
170 	 *
171 	 * It is recommended that you not use the hard_remove
172 	 * option. When hard_remove is set, the following libc
173 	 * functions fail on unlinked files (returning errno of
174 	 * ENOENT): read(2), write(2), fsync(2), close(2), f*xattr(2),
175 	 * ftruncate(2), fstat(2), fchmod(2), fchown(2)
176 	 */
177 	int hard_remove;
178 
179 	/**
180 	 * Honor the st_ino field in the functions getattr() and
181 	 * fill_dir(). This value is used to fill in the st_ino field
182 	 * in the stat(2), lstat(2), fstat(2) functions and the d_ino
183 	 * field in the readdir(2) function. The filesystem does not
184 	 * have to guarantee uniqueness, however some applications
185 	 * rely on this value being unique for the whole filesystem.
186 	 *
187 	 * Note that this does *not* affect the inode that libfuse
188 	 * and the kernel use internally (also called the "nodeid").
189 	 */
190 	int use_ino;
191 
192 	/**
193 	 * If use_ino option is not given, still try to fill in the
194 	 * d_ino field in readdir(2). If the name was previously
195 	 * looked up, and is still in the cache, the inode number
196 	 * found there will be used.  Otherwise it will be set to -1.
197 	 * If use_ino option is given, this option is ignored.
198 	 */
199 	int readdir_ino;
200 
201 	/**
202 	 * This option disables the use of page cache (file content cache)
203 	 * in the kernel for this filesystem. This has several affects:
204 	 *
205 	 * 1. Each read(2) or write(2) system call will initiate one
206 	 *    or more read or write operations, data will not be
207 	 *    cached in the kernel.
208 	 *
209 	 * 2. The return value of the read() and write() system calls
210 	 *    will correspond to the return values of the read and
211 	 *    write operations. This is useful for example if the
212 	 *    file size is not known in advance (before reading it).
213 	 *
214 	 * Internally, enabling this option causes fuse to set the
215 	 * `direct_io` field of `struct fuse_file_info` - overwriting
216 	 * any value that was put there by the file system.
217 	 */
218 	int direct_io;
219 
220 	/**
221 	 * This option disables flushing the cache of the file
222 	 * contents on every open(2).  This should only be enabled on
223 	 * filesystems where the file data is never changed
224 	 * externally (not through the mounted FUSE filesystem).  Thus
225 	 * it is not suitable for network filesystems and other
226 	 * intermediate filesystems.
227 	 *
228 	 * NOTE: if this option is not specified (and neither
229 	 * direct_io) data is still cached after the open(2), so a
230 	 * read(2) system call will not always initiate a read
231 	 * operation.
232 	 *
233 	 * Internally, enabling this option causes fuse to set the
234 	 * `keep_cache` field of `struct fuse_file_info` - overwriting
235 	 * any value that was put there by the file system.
236 	 */
237 	int kernel_cache;
238 
239 	/**
240 	 * This option is an alternative to `kernel_cache`. Instead of
241 	 * unconditionally keeping cached data, the cached data is
242 	 * invalidated on open(2) if if the modification time or the
243 	 * size of the file has changed since it was last opened.
244 	 */
245 	int auto_cache;
246 
247 	/**
248 	 * The timeout in seconds for which file attributes are cached
249 	 * for the purpose of checking if auto_cache should flush the
250 	 * file data on open.
251 	 */
252 	int ac_attr_timeout_set;
253 	double ac_attr_timeout;
254 
255 	/**
256 	 * If this option is given the file-system handlers for the
257 	 * following operations will not receive path information:
258 	 * read, write, flush, release, fsync, readdir, releasedir,
259 	 * fsyncdir, lock, ioctl and poll.
260 	 *
261 	 * For the truncate, getattr, chmod, chown and utimens
262 	 * operations the path will be provided only if the struct
263 	 * fuse_file_info argument is NULL.
264 	 */
265 	int nullpath_ok;
266 
267 	/**
268 	 * The remaining options are used by libfuse internally and
269 	 * should not be touched.
270 	 */
271 	int show_help;
272 	char *modules;
273 	int debug;
274 };
275 
276 
277 /**
278  * The file system operations:
279  *
280  * Most of these should work very similarly to the well known UNIX
281  * file system operations.  A major exception is that instead of
282  * returning an error in 'errno', the operation should return the
283  * negated error value (-errno) directly.
284  *
285  * All methods are optional, but some are essential for a useful
286  * filesystem (e.g. getattr).  Open, flush, release, fsync, opendir,
287  * releasedir, fsyncdir, access, create, truncate, lock, init and
288  * destroy are special purpose methods, without which a full featured
289  * filesystem can still be implemented.
290  *
291  * In general, all methods are expected to perform any necessary
292  * permission checking. However, a filesystem may delegate this task
293  * to the kernel by passing the `default_permissions` mount option to
294  * `fuse_new()`. In this case, methods will only be called if
295  * the kernel's permission check has succeeded.
296  *
297  * Almost all operations take a path which can be of any length.
298  */
299 struct fuse_operations {
300 	/** Get file attributes.
301 	 *
302 	 * Similar to stat().  The 'st_dev' and 'st_blksize' fields are
303 	 * ignored. The 'st_ino' field is ignored except if the 'use_ino'
304 	 * mount option is given. In that case it is passed to userspace,
305 	 * but libfuse and the kernel will still assign a different
306 	 * inode for internal use (called the "nodeid").
307 	 *
308 	 * `fi` will always be NULL if the file is not currently open, but
309 	 * may also be NULL if the file is open.
310 	 */
311 	int (*getattr) (const char *, struct stat *, struct fuse_file_info *fi);
312 
313 	/** Read the target of a symbolic link
314 	 *
315 	 * The buffer should be filled with a null terminated string.  The
316 	 * buffer size argument includes the space for the terminating
317 	 * null character.	If the linkname is too long to fit in the
318 	 * buffer, it should be truncated.	The return value should be 0
319 	 * for success.
320 	 */
321 	int (*readlink) (const char *, char *, size_t);
322 
323 	/** Create a file node
324 	 *
325 	 * This is called for creation of all non-directory, non-symlink
326 	 * nodes.  If the filesystem defines a create() method, then for
327 	 * regular files that will be called instead.
328 	 */
329 	int (*mknod) (const char *, mode_t, dev_t);
330 
331 	/** Create a directory
332 	 *
333 	 * Note that the mode argument may not have the type specification
334 	 * bits set, i.e. S_ISDIR(mode) can be false.  To obtain the
335 	 * correct directory type bits use  mode|S_IFDIR
336 	 * */
337 	int (*mkdir) (const char *, mode_t);
338 
339 	/** Remove a file */
340 	int (*unlink) (const char *);
341 
342 	/** Remove a directory */
343 	int (*rmdir) (const char *);
344 
345 	/** Create a symbolic link */
346 	int (*symlink) (const char *, const char *);
347 
348 	/** Rename a file
349 	 *
350 	 * *flags* may be `RENAME_EXCHANGE` or `RENAME_NOREPLACE`. If
351 	 * RENAME_NOREPLACE is specified, the filesystem must not
352 	 * overwrite *newname* if it exists and return an error
353 	 * instead. If `RENAME_EXCHANGE` is specified, the filesystem
354 	 * must atomically exchange the two files, i.e. both must
355 	 * exist and neither may be deleted.
356 	 */
357 	int (*rename) (const char *, const char *, unsigned int flags);
358 
359 	/** Create a hard link to a file */
360 	int (*link) (const char *, const char *);
361 
362 	/** Change the permission bits of a file
363 	 *
364 	 * `fi` will always be NULL if the file is not currenlty open, but
365 	 * may also be NULL if the file is open.
366 	 */
367 	int (*chmod) (const char *, mode_t, struct fuse_file_info *fi);
368 
369 	/** Change the owner and group of a file
370 	 *
371 	 * `fi` will always be NULL if the file is not currenlty open, but
372 	 * may also be NULL if the file is open.
373 	 *
374 	 * Unless FUSE_CAP_HANDLE_KILLPRIV is disabled, this method is
375 	 * expected to reset the setuid and setgid bits.
376 	 */
377 	int (*chown) (const char *, uid_t, gid_t, struct fuse_file_info *fi);
378 
379 	/** Change the size of a file
380 	 *
381 	 * `fi` will always be NULL if the file is not currenlty open, but
382 	 * may also be NULL if the file is open.
383 	 *
384 	 * Unless FUSE_CAP_HANDLE_KILLPRIV is disabled, this method is
385 	 * expected to reset the setuid and setgid bits.
386 	 */
387 	int (*truncate) (const char *, off_t, struct fuse_file_info *fi);
388 
389 	/** Open a file
390 	 *
391 	 * Open flags are available in fi->flags. The following rules
392 	 * apply.
393 	 *
394 	 *  - Creation (O_CREAT, O_EXCL, O_NOCTTY) flags will be
395 	 *    filtered out / handled by the kernel.
396 	 *
397 	 *  - Access modes (O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY, O_RDWR, O_EXEC, O_SEARCH)
398 	 *    should be used by the filesystem to check if the operation is
399 	 *    permitted.  If the ``-o default_permissions`` mount option is
400 	 *    given, this check is already done by the kernel before calling
401 	 *    open() and may thus be omitted by the filesystem.
402 	 *
403 	 *  - When writeback caching is enabled, the kernel may send
404 	 *    read requests even for files opened with O_WRONLY. The
405 	 *    filesystem should be prepared to handle this.
406 	 *
407 	 *  - When writeback caching is disabled, the filesystem is
408 	 *    expected to properly handle the O_APPEND flag and ensure
409 	 *    that each write is appending to the end of the file.
410 	 *
411          *  - When writeback caching is enabled, the kernel will
412 	 *    handle O_APPEND. However, unless all changes to the file
413 	 *    come through the kernel this will not work reliably. The
414 	 *    filesystem should thus either ignore the O_APPEND flag
415 	 *    (and let the kernel handle it), or return an error
416 	 *    (indicating that reliably O_APPEND is not available).
417 	 *
418 	 * Filesystem may store an arbitrary file handle (pointer,
419 	 * index, etc) in fi->fh, and use this in other all other file
420 	 * operations (read, write, flush, release, fsync).
421 	 *
422 	 * Filesystem may also implement stateless file I/O and not store
423 	 * anything in fi->fh.
424 	 *
425 	 * There are also some flags (direct_io, keep_cache) which the
426 	 * filesystem may set in fi, to change the way the file is opened.
427 	 * See fuse_file_info structure in <fuse_common.h> for more details.
428 	 *
429 	 * If this request is answered with an error code of ENOSYS
430 	 * and FUSE_CAP_NO_OPEN_SUPPORT is set in
431 	 * `fuse_conn_info.capable`, this is treated as success and
432 	 * future calls to open will also succeed without being send
433 	 * to the filesystem process.
434 	 *
435 	 */
436 	int (*open) (const char *, struct fuse_file_info *);
437 
438 	/** Read data from an open file
439 	 *
440 	 * Read should return exactly the number of bytes requested except
441 	 * on EOF or error, otherwise the rest of the data will be
442 	 * substituted with zeroes.	 An exception to this is when the
443 	 * 'direct_io' mount option is specified, in which case the return
444 	 * value of the read system call will reflect the return value of
445 	 * this operation.
446 	 */
447 	int (*read) (const char *, char *, size_t, off_t,
448 		     struct fuse_file_info *);
449 
450 	/** Write data to an open file
451 	 *
452 	 * Write should return exactly the number of bytes requested
453 	 * except on error.	 An exception to this is when the 'direct_io'
454 	 * mount option is specified (see read operation).
455 	 *
456 	 * Unless FUSE_CAP_HANDLE_KILLPRIV is disabled, this method is
457 	 * expected to reset the setuid and setgid bits.
458 	 */
459 	int (*write) (const char *, const char *, size_t, off_t,
460 		      struct fuse_file_info *);
461 
462 	/** Get file system statistics
463 	 *
464 	 * The 'f_favail', 'f_fsid' and 'f_flag' fields are ignored
465 	 */
466 	int (*statfs) (const char *, struct statvfs *);
467 
468 	/** Possibly flush cached data
469 	 *
470 	 * BIG NOTE: This is not equivalent to fsync().  It's not a
471 	 * request to sync dirty data.
472 	 *
473 	 * Flush is called on each close() of a file descriptor, as opposed to
474 	 * release which is called on the close of the last file descriptor for
475 	 * a file.  Under Linux, errors returned by flush() will be passed to
476 	 * userspace as errors from close(), so flush() is a good place to write
477 	 * back any cached dirty data. However, many applications ignore errors
478 	 * on close(), and on non-Linux systems, close() may succeed even if flush()
479 	 * returns an error. For these reasons, filesystems should not assume
480 	 * that errors returned by flush will ever be noticed or even
481 	 * delivered.
482 	 *
483 	 * NOTE: The flush() method may be called more than once for each
484 	 * open().  This happens if more than one file descriptor refers to an
485 	 * open file handle, e.g. due to dup(), dup2() or fork() calls.  It is
486 	 * not possible to determine if a flush is final, so each flush should
487 	 * be treated equally.  Multiple write-flush sequences are relatively
488 	 * rare, so this shouldn't be a problem.
489 	 *
490 	 * Filesystems shouldn't assume that flush will be called at any
491 	 * particular point.  It may be called more times than expected, or not
492 	 * at all.
493 	 *
494 	 * [close]: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/close.html
495 	 */
496 	int (*flush) (const char *, struct fuse_file_info *);
497 
498 	/** Release an open file
499 	 *
500 	 * Release is called when there are no more references to an open
501 	 * file: all file descriptors are closed and all memory mappings
502 	 * are unmapped.
503 	 *
504 	 * For every open() call there will be exactly one release() call
505 	 * with the same flags and file handle.  It is possible to
506 	 * have a file opened more than once, in which case only the last
507 	 * release will mean, that no more reads/writes will happen on the
508 	 * file.  The return value of release is ignored.
509 	 */
510 	int (*release) (const char *, struct fuse_file_info *);
511 
512 	/** Synchronize file contents
513 	 *
514 	 * If the datasync parameter is non-zero, then only the user data
515 	 * should be flushed, not the meta data.
516 	 */
517 	int (*fsync) (const char *, int, struct fuse_file_info *);
518 
519 	/** Set extended attributes */
520 	int (*setxattr) (const char *, const char *, const char *, size_t, int);
521 
522 	/** Get extended attributes */
523 	int (*getxattr) (const char *, const char *, char *, size_t);
524 
525 	/** List extended attributes */
526 	int (*listxattr) (const char *, char *, size_t);
527 
528 	/** Remove extended attributes */
529 	int (*removexattr) (const char *, const char *);
530 
531 	/** Open directory
532 	 *
533 	 * Unless the 'default_permissions' mount option is given,
534 	 * this method should check if opendir is permitted for this
535 	 * directory. Optionally opendir may also return an arbitrary
536 	 * filehandle in the fuse_file_info structure, which will be
537 	 * passed to readdir, releasedir and fsyncdir.
538 	 */
539 	int (*opendir) (const char *, struct fuse_file_info *);
540 
541 	/** Read directory
542 	 *
543 	 * The filesystem may choose between two modes of operation:
544 	 *
545 	 * 1) The readdir implementation ignores the offset parameter, and
546 	 * passes zero to the filler function's offset.  The filler
547 	 * function will not return '1' (unless an error happens), so the
548 	 * whole directory is read in a single readdir operation.
549 	 *
550 	 * 2) The readdir implementation keeps track of the offsets of the
551 	 * directory entries.  It uses the offset parameter and always
552 	 * passes non-zero offset to the filler function.  When the buffer
553 	 * is full (or an error happens) the filler function will return
554 	 * '1'.
555 	 */
556 	int (*readdir) (const char *, void *, fuse_fill_dir_t, off_t,
557 			struct fuse_file_info *, enum fuse_readdir_flags);
558 
559 	/** Release directory
560 	 */
561 	int (*releasedir) (const char *, struct fuse_file_info *);
562 
563 	/** Synchronize directory contents
564 	 *
565 	 * If the datasync parameter is non-zero, then only the user data
566 	 * should be flushed, not the meta data
567 	 */
568 	int (*fsyncdir) (const char *, int, struct fuse_file_info *);
569 
570 	/**
571 	 * Initialize filesystem
572 	 *
573 	 * The return value will passed in the `private_data` field of
574 	 * `struct fuse_context` to all file operations, and as a
575 	 * parameter to the destroy() method. It overrides the initial
576 	 * value provided to fuse_main() / fuse_new().
577 	 */
578 	void *(*init) (struct fuse_conn_info *conn,
579 		       struct fuse_config *cfg);
580 
581 	/**
582 	 * Clean up filesystem
583 	 *
584 	 * Called on filesystem exit.
585 	 */
586 	void (*destroy) (void *private_data);
587 
588 	/**
589 	 * Check file access permissions
590 	 *
591 	 * This will be called for the access() system call.  If the
592 	 * 'default_permissions' mount option is given, this method is not
593 	 * called.
594 	 *
595 	 * This method is not called under Linux kernel versions 2.4.x
596 	 */
597 	int (*access) (const char *, int);
598 
599 	/**
600 	 * Create and open a file
601 	 *
602 	 * If the file does not exist, first create it with the specified
603 	 * mode, and then open it.
604 	 *
605 	 * If this method is not implemented or under Linux kernel
606 	 * versions earlier than 2.6.15, the mknod() and open() methods
607 	 * will be called instead.
608 	 */
609 	int (*create) (const char *, mode_t, struct fuse_file_info *);
610 
611 	/**
612 	 * Perform POSIX file locking operation
613 	 *
614 	 * The cmd argument will be either F_GETLK, F_SETLK or F_SETLKW.
615 	 *
616 	 * For the meaning of fields in 'struct flock' see the man page
617 	 * for fcntl(2).  The l_whence field will always be set to
618 	 * SEEK_SET.
619 	 *
620 	 * For checking lock ownership, the 'fuse_file_info->owner'
621 	 * argument must be used.
622 	 *
623 	 * For F_GETLK operation, the library will first check currently
624 	 * held locks, and if a conflicting lock is found it will return
625 	 * information without calling this method.	 This ensures, that
626 	 * for local locks the l_pid field is correctly filled in.	The
627 	 * results may not be accurate in case of race conditions and in
628 	 * the presence of hard links, but it's unlikely that an
629 	 * application would rely on accurate GETLK results in these
630 	 * cases.  If a conflicting lock is not found, this method will be
631 	 * called, and the filesystem may fill out l_pid by a meaningful
632 	 * value, or it may leave this field zero.
633 	 *
634 	 * For F_SETLK and F_SETLKW the l_pid field will be set to the pid
635 	 * of the process performing the locking operation.
636 	 *
637 	 * Note: if this method is not implemented, the kernel will still
638 	 * allow file locking to work locally.  Hence it is only
639 	 * interesting for network filesystems and similar.
640 	 */
641 	int (*lock) (const char *, struct fuse_file_info *, int cmd,
642 		     struct flock *);
643 
644 	/**
645 	 * Change the access and modification times of a file with
646 	 * nanosecond resolution
647 	 *
648 	 * This supersedes the old utime() interface.  New applications
649 	 * should use this.
650 	 *
651 	 * `fi` will always be NULL if the file is not currenlty open, but
652 	 * may also be NULL if the file is open.
653 	 *
654 	 * See the utimensat(2) man page for details.
655 	 */
656 	 int (*utimens) (const char *, const struct timespec tv[2],
657 			 struct fuse_file_info *fi);
658 
659 	/**
660 	 * Map block index within file to block index within device
661 	 *
662 	 * Note: This makes sense only for block device backed filesystems
663 	 * mounted with the 'blkdev' option
664 	 */
665 	int (*bmap) (const char *, size_t blocksize, uint64_t *idx);
666 
667 	/**
668 	 * Ioctl
669 	 *
670 	 * flags will have FUSE_IOCTL_COMPAT set for 32bit ioctls in
671 	 * 64bit environment.  The size and direction of data is
672 	 * determined by _IOC_*() decoding of cmd.  For _IOC_NONE,
673 	 * data will be NULL, for _IOC_WRITE data is out area, for
674 	 * _IOC_READ in area and if both are set in/out area.  In all
675 	 * non-NULL cases, the area is of _IOC_SIZE(cmd) bytes.
676 	 *
677 	 * If flags has FUSE_IOCTL_DIR then the fuse_file_info refers to a
678 	 * directory file handle.
679 	 *
680 	 * Note : the unsigned long request submitted by the application
681 	 * is truncated to 32 bits.
682 	 */
683 	int (*ioctl) (const char *, unsigned int cmd, void *arg,
684 		      struct fuse_file_info *, unsigned int flags, void *data);
685 
686 	/**
687 	 * Poll for IO readiness events
688 	 *
689 	 * Note: If ph is non-NULL, the client should notify
690 	 * when IO readiness events occur by calling
691 	 * fuse_notify_poll() with the specified ph.
692 	 *
693 	 * Regardless of the number of times poll with a non-NULL ph
694 	 * is received, single notification is enough to clear all.
695 	 * Notifying more times incurs overhead but doesn't harm
696 	 * correctness.
697 	 *
698 	 * The callee is responsible for destroying ph with
699 	 * fuse_pollhandle_destroy() when no longer in use.
700 	 */
701 	int (*poll) (const char *, struct fuse_file_info *,
702 		     struct fuse_pollhandle *ph, unsigned *reventsp);
703 
704 	/** Write contents of buffer to an open file
705 	 *
706 	 * Similar to the write() method, but data is supplied in a
707 	 * generic buffer.  Use fuse_buf_copy() to transfer data to
708 	 * the destination.
709 	 *
710 	 * Unless FUSE_CAP_HANDLE_KILLPRIV is disabled, this method is
711 	 * expected to reset the setuid and setgid bits.
712 	 */
713 	int (*write_buf) (const char *, struct fuse_bufvec *buf, off_t off,
714 			  struct fuse_file_info *);
715 
716 	/** Store data from an open file in a buffer
717 	 *
718 	 * Similar to the read() method, but data is stored and
719 	 * returned in a generic buffer.
720 	 *
721 	 * No actual copying of data has to take place, the source
722 	 * file descriptor may simply be stored in the buffer for
723 	 * later data transfer.
724 	 *
725 	 * The buffer must be allocated dynamically and stored at the
726 	 * location pointed to by bufp.  If the buffer contains memory
727 	 * regions, they too must be allocated using malloc().  The
728 	 * allocated memory will be freed by the caller.
729 	 */
730 	int (*read_buf) (const char *, struct fuse_bufvec **bufp,
731 			 size_t size, off_t off, struct fuse_file_info *);
732 	/**
733 	 * Perform BSD file locking operation
734 	 *
735 	 * The op argument will be either LOCK_SH, LOCK_EX or LOCK_UN
736 	 *
737 	 * Nonblocking requests will be indicated by ORing LOCK_NB to
738 	 * the above operations
739 	 *
740 	 * For more information see the flock(2) manual page.
741 	 *
742 	 * Additionally fi->owner will be set to a value unique to
743 	 * this open file.  This same value will be supplied to
744 	 * ->release() when the file is released.
745 	 *
746 	 * Note: if this method is not implemented, the kernel will still
747 	 * allow file locking to work locally.  Hence it is only
748 	 * interesting for network filesystems and similar.
749 	 */
750 	int (*flock) (const char *, struct fuse_file_info *, int op);
751 
752 	/**
753 	 * Allocates space for an open file
754 	 *
755 	 * This function ensures that required space is allocated for specified
756 	 * file.  If this function returns success then any subsequent write
757 	 * request to specified range is guaranteed not to fail because of lack
758 	 * of space on the file system media.
759 	 */
760 	int (*fallocate) (const char *, int, off_t, off_t,
761 			  struct fuse_file_info *);
762 
763 	/**
764 	 * Copy a range of data from one file to another
765 	 *
766 	 * Performs an optimized copy between two file descriptors without the
767 	 * additional cost of transferring data through the FUSE kernel module
768 	 * to user space (glibc) and then back into the FUSE filesystem again.
769 	 *
770 	 * In case this method is not implemented, glibc falls back to reading
771 	 * data from the source and writing to the destination. Effectively
772 	 * doing an inefficient copy of the data.
773 	 */
774 	ssize_t (*copy_file_range) (const char *path_in,
775 				    struct fuse_file_info *fi_in,
776 				    off_t offset_in, const char *path_out,
777 				    struct fuse_file_info *fi_out,
778 				    off_t offset_out, size_t size, int flags);
779 
780 	/**
781 	 * Find next data or hole after the specified offset
782 	 */
783 	off_t (*lseek) (const char *, off_t off, int whence, struct fuse_file_info *);
784 };
785 
786 /** Extra context that may be needed by some filesystems
787  *
788  * The uid, gid and pid fields are not filled in case of a writepage
789  * operation.
790  */
791 struct fuse_context {
792 	/** Pointer to the fuse object */
793 	struct fuse *fuse;
794 
795 	/** User ID of the calling process */
796 	uid_t uid;
797 
798 	/** Group ID of the calling process */
799 	gid_t gid;
800 
801 	/** Process ID of the calling thread */
802 	pid_t pid;
803 
804 	/** Private filesystem data */
805 	void *private_data;
806 
807 	/** Umask of the calling process */
808 	mode_t umask;
809 };
810 
811 /**
812  * Main function of FUSE.
813  *
814  * This is for the lazy.  This is all that has to be called from the
815  * main() function.
816  *
817  * This function does the following:
818  *   - parses command line options, and handles --help and
819  *     --version
820  *   - installs signal handlers for INT, HUP, TERM and PIPE
821  *   - registers an exit handler to unmount the filesystem on program exit
822  *   - creates a fuse handle
823  *   - registers the operations
824  *   - calls either the single-threaded or the multi-threaded event loop
825  *
826  * Most file systems will have to parse some file-system specific
827  * arguments before calling this function. It is recommended to do
828  * this with fuse_opt_parse() and a processing function that passes
829  * through any unknown options (this can also be achieved by just
830  * passing NULL as the processing function). That way, the remaining
831  * options can be passed directly to fuse_main().
832  *
833  * fuse_main() accepts all options that can be passed to
834  * fuse_parse_cmdline(), fuse_new(), or fuse_session_new().
835  *
836  * Option parsing skips argv[0], which is assumed to contain the
837  * program name. This element must always be present and is used to
838  * construct a basic ``usage: `` message for the --help
839  * output. argv[0] may also be set to the empty string. In this case
840  * the usage message is suppressed. This can be used by file systems
841  * to print their own usage line first. See hello.c for an example of
842  * how to do this.
843  *
844  * Note: this is currently implemented as a macro.
845  *
846  * The following error codes may be returned from fuse_main():
847  *   1: Invalid option arguments
848  *   2: No mount point specified
849  *   3: FUSE setup failed
850  *   4: Mounting failed
851  *   5: Failed to daemonize (detach from session)
852  *   6: Failed to set up signal handlers
853  *   7: An error occured during the life of the file system
854  *
855  * @param argc the argument counter passed to the main() function
856  * @param argv the argument vector passed to the main() function
857  * @param op the file system operation
858  * @param private_data Initial value for the `private_data`
859  *            field of `struct fuse_context`. May be overridden by the
860  *            `struct fuse_operations.init` handler.
861  * @return 0 on success, nonzero on failure
862  *
863  * Example usage, see hello.c
864  */
865 /*
866   int fuse_main(int argc, char *argv[], const struct fuse_operations *op,
867   void *private_data);
868 */
869 #define fuse_main(argc, argv, op, private_data)				\
870 	fuse_main_real(argc, argv, op, sizeof(*(op)), private_data)
871 
872 /* ----------------------------------------------------------- *
873  * More detailed API					       *
874  * ----------------------------------------------------------- */
875 
876 /**
877  * Print available options (high- and low-level) to stdout.  This is
878  * not an exhaustive list, but includes only those options that may be
879  * of interest to an end-user of a file system.
880  *
881  * The function looks at the argument vector only to determine if
882  * there are additional modules to be loaded (module=foo option),
883  * and attempts to call their help functions as well.
884  *
885  * @param args the argument vector.
886  */
887 void fuse_lib_help(struct fuse_args *args);
888 
889 /**
890  * Create a new FUSE filesystem.
891  *
892  * This function accepts most file-system independent mount options
893  * (like context, nodev, ro - see mount(8)), as well as the
894  * FUSE-specific mount options from mount.fuse(8).
895  *
896  * If the --help option is specified, the function writes a help text
897  * to stdout and returns NULL.
898  *
899  * Option parsing skips argv[0], which is assumed to contain the
900  * program name. This element must always be present and is used to
901  * construct a basic ``usage: `` message for the --help output. If
902  * argv[0] is set to the empty string, no usage message is included in
903  * the --help output.
904  *
905  * If an unknown option is passed in, an error message is written to
906  * stderr and the function returns NULL.
907  *
908  * @param args argument vector
909  * @param op the filesystem operations
910  * @param op_size the size of the fuse_operations structure
911  * @param private_data Initial value for the `private_data`
912  *            field of `struct fuse_context`. May be overridden by the
913  *            `struct fuse_operations.init` handler.
914  * @return the created FUSE handle
915  */
916 #if FUSE_USE_VERSION == 30
917 struct fuse *fuse_new_30(struct fuse_args *args, const struct fuse_operations *op,
918 			 size_t op_size, void *private_data);
919 #define fuse_new(args, op, size, data) fuse_new_30(args, op, size, data)
920 #else
921 struct fuse *fuse_new(struct fuse_args *args, const struct fuse_operations *op,
922 		      size_t op_size, void *private_data);
923 #endif
924 
925 /**
926  * Mount a FUSE file system.
927  *
928  * @param mountpoint the mount point path
929  * @param f the FUSE handle
930  *
931  * @return 0 on success, -1 on failure.
932  **/
933 int fuse_mount(struct fuse *f, const char *mountpoint);
934 
935 /**
936  * Unmount a FUSE file system.
937  *
938  * See fuse_session_unmount() for additional information.
939  *
940  * @param f the FUSE handle
941  **/
942 void fuse_unmount(struct fuse *f);
943 
944 /**
945  * Destroy the FUSE handle.
946  *
947  * NOTE: This function does not unmount the filesystem.	 If this is
948  * needed, call fuse_unmount() before calling this function.
949  *
950  * @param f the FUSE handle
951  */
952 void fuse_destroy(struct fuse *f);
953 
954 /**
955  * FUSE event loop.
956  *
957  * Requests from the kernel are processed, and the appropriate
958  * operations are called.
959  *
960  * For a description of the return value and the conditions when the
961  * event loop exits, refer to the documentation of
962  * fuse_session_loop().
963  *
964  * @param f the FUSE handle
965  * @return see fuse_session_loop()
966  *
967  * See also: fuse_loop_mt()
968  */
969 int fuse_loop(struct fuse *f);
970 
971 /**
972  * Flag session as terminated
973  *
974  * This function will cause any running event loops to exit on
975  * the next opportunity.
976  *
977  * @param f the FUSE handle
978  */
979 void fuse_exit(struct fuse *f);
980 
981 /**
982  * FUSE event loop with multiple threads
983  *
984  * Requests from the kernel are processed, and the appropriate
985  * operations are called.  Request are processed in parallel by
986  * distributing them between multiple threads.
987  *
988  * For a description of the return value and the conditions when the
989  * event loop exits, refer to the documentation of
990  * fuse_session_loop().
991  *
992  * Note: using fuse_loop() instead of fuse_loop_mt() means you are running in
993  * single-threaded mode, and that you will not have to worry about reentrancy,
994  * though you will have to worry about recursive lookups. In single-threaded
995  * mode, FUSE will wait for one callback to return before calling another.
996  *
997  * Enabling multiple threads, by using fuse_loop_mt(), will cause FUSE to make
998  * multiple simultaneous calls into the various callback functions given by your
999  * fuse_operations record.
1000  *
1001  * If you are using multiple threads, you can enjoy all the parallel execution
1002  * and interactive response benefits of threads, and you get to enjoy all the
1003  * benefits of race conditions and locking bugs, too. Ensure that any code used
1004  * in the callback function of fuse_operations is also thread-safe.
1005  *
1006  * @param f the FUSE handle
1007  * @param config loop configuration
1008  * @return see fuse_session_loop()
1009  *
1010  * See also: fuse_loop()
1011  */
1012 #if FUSE_USE_VERSION < 32
1013 int fuse_loop_mt_31(struct fuse *f, int clone_fd);
1014 #define fuse_loop_mt(f, clone_fd) fuse_loop_mt_31(f, clone_fd)
1015 #else
1016 int fuse_loop_mt(struct fuse *f, struct fuse_loop_config *config);
1017 #endif
1018 
1019 /**
1020  * Get the current context
1021  *
1022  * The context is only valid for the duration of a filesystem
1023  * operation, and thus must not be stored and used later.
1024  *
1025  * @return the context
1026  */
1027 struct fuse_context *fuse_get_context(void);
1028 
1029 /**
1030  * Get the current supplementary group IDs for the current request
1031  *
1032  * Similar to the getgroups(2) system call, except the return value is
1033  * always the total number of group IDs, even if it is larger than the
1034  * specified size.
1035  *
1036  * The current fuse kernel module in linux (as of 2.6.30) doesn't pass
1037  * the group list to userspace, hence this function needs to parse
1038  * "/proc/$TID/task/$TID/status" to get the group IDs.
1039  *
1040  * This feature may not be supported on all operating systems.  In
1041  * such a case this function will return -ENOSYS.
1042  *
1043  * @param size size of given array
1044  * @param list array of group IDs to be filled in
1045  * @return the total number of supplementary group IDs or -errno on failure
1046  */
1047 int fuse_getgroups(int size, gid_t list[]);
1048 
1049 /**
1050  * Check if the current request has already been interrupted
1051  *
1052  * @return 1 if the request has been interrupted, 0 otherwise
1053  */
1054 int fuse_interrupted(void);
1055 
1056 /**
1057  * Invalidates cache for the given path.
1058  *
1059  * This calls fuse_lowlevel_notify_inval_inode internally.
1060  *
1061  * @return 0 on successful invalidation, negative error value otherwise.
1062  *         This routine may return -ENOENT to indicate that there was
1063  *         no entry to be invalidated, e.g., because the path has not
1064  *         been seen before or has been forgotten; this should not be
1065  *         considered to be an error.
1066  */
1067 int fuse_invalidate_path(struct fuse *f, const char *path);
1068 
1069 /**
1070  * The real main function
1071  *
1072  * Do not call this directly, use fuse_main()
1073  */
1074 int fuse_main_real(int argc, char *argv[], const struct fuse_operations *op,
1075 		   size_t op_size, void *private_data);
1076 
1077 /**
1078  * Start the cleanup thread when using option "remember".
1079  *
1080  * This is done automatically by fuse_loop_mt()
1081  * @param fuse struct fuse pointer for fuse instance
1082  * @return 0 on success and -1 on error
1083  */
1084 int fuse_start_cleanup_thread(struct fuse *fuse);
1085 
1086 /**
1087  * Stop the cleanup thread when using option "remember".
1088  *
1089  * This is done automatically by fuse_loop_mt()
1090  * @param fuse struct fuse pointer for fuse instance
1091  */
1092 void fuse_stop_cleanup_thread(struct fuse *fuse);
1093 
1094 /**
1095  * Iterate over cache removing stale entries
1096  * use in conjunction with "-oremember"
1097  *
1098  * NOTE: This is already done for the standard sessions
1099  *
1100  * @param fuse struct fuse pointer for fuse instance
1101  * @return the number of seconds until the next cleanup
1102  */
1103 int fuse_clean_cache(struct fuse *fuse);
1104 
1105 /*
1106  * Stacking API
1107  */
1108 
1109 /**
1110  * Fuse filesystem object
1111  *
1112  * This is opaque object represents a filesystem layer
1113  */
1114 struct fuse_fs;
1115 
1116 /*
1117  * These functions call the relevant filesystem operation, and return
1118  * the result.
1119  *
1120  * If the operation is not defined, they return -ENOSYS, with the
1121  * exception of fuse_fs_open, fuse_fs_release, fuse_fs_opendir,
1122  * fuse_fs_releasedir and fuse_fs_statfs, which return 0.
1123  */
1124 
1125 int fuse_fs_getattr(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path, struct stat *buf,
1126 		    struct fuse_file_info *fi);
1127 int fuse_fs_rename(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *oldpath,
1128 		   const char *newpath, unsigned int flags);
1129 int fuse_fs_unlink(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path);
1130 int fuse_fs_rmdir(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path);
1131 int fuse_fs_symlink(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *linkname,
1132 		    const char *path);
1133 int fuse_fs_link(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *oldpath, const char *newpath);
1134 int fuse_fs_release(struct fuse_fs *fs,	 const char *path,
1135 		    struct fuse_file_info *fi);
1136 int fuse_fs_open(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path,
1137 		 struct fuse_file_info *fi);
1138 int fuse_fs_read(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path, char *buf, size_t size,
1139 		 off_t off, struct fuse_file_info *fi);
1140 int fuse_fs_read_buf(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path,
1141 		     struct fuse_bufvec **bufp, size_t size, off_t off,
1142 		     struct fuse_file_info *fi);
1143 int fuse_fs_write(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path, const char *buf,
1144 		  size_t size, off_t off, struct fuse_file_info *fi);
1145 int fuse_fs_write_buf(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path,
1146 		      struct fuse_bufvec *buf, off_t off,
1147 		      struct fuse_file_info *fi);
1148 int fuse_fs_fsync(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path, int datasync,
1149 		  struct fuse_file_info *fi);
1150 int fuse_fs_flush(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path,
1151 		  struct fuse_file_info *fi);
1152 int fuse_fs_statfs(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path, struct statvfs *buf);
1153 int fuse_fs_opendir(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path,
1154 		    struct fuse_file_info *fi);
1155 int fuse_fs_readdir(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path, void *buf,
1156 		    fuse_fill_dir_t filler, off_t off,
1157 		    struct fuse_file_info *fi, enum fuse_readdir_flags flags);
1158 int fuse_fs_fsyncdir(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path, int datasync,
1159 		     struct fuse_file_info *fi);
1160 int fuse_fs_releasedir(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path,
1161 		       struct fuse_file_info *fi);
1162 int fuse_fs_create(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path, mode_t mode,
1163 		   struct fuse_file_info *fi);
1164 int fuse_fs_lock(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path,
1165 		 struct fuse_file_info *fi, int cmd, struct flock *lock);
1166 int fuse_fs_flock(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path,
1167 		  struct fuse_file_info *fi, int op);
1168 int fuse_fs_chmod(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path, mode_t mode,
1169 		  struct fuse_file_info *fi);
1170 int fuse_fs_chown(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path, uid_t uid, gid_t gid,
1171 		  struct fuse_file_info *fi);
1172 int fuse_fs_truncate(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path, off_t size,
1173 		     struct fuse_file_info *fi);
1174 int fuse_fs_utimens(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path,
1175 		    const struct timespec tv[2], struct fuse_file_info *fi);
1176 int fuse_fs_access(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path, int mask);
1177 int fuse_fs_readlink(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path, char *buf,
1178 		     size_t len);
1179 int fuse_fs_mknod(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path, mode_t mode,
1180 		  dev_t rdev);
1181 int fuse_fs_mkdir(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path, mode_t mode);
1182 int fuse_fs_setxattr(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path, const char *name,
1183 		     const char *value, size_t size, int flags);
1184 int fuse_fs_getxattr(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path, const char *name,
1185 		     char *value, size_t size);
1186 int fuse_fs_listxattr(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path, char *list,
1187 		      size_t size);
1188 int fuse_fs_removexattr(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path,
1189 			const char *name);
1190 int fuse_fs_bmap(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path, size_t blocksize,
1191 		 uint64_t *idx);
1192 int fuse_fs_ioctl(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path, unsigned int cmd,
1193 		  void *arg, struct fuse_file_info *fi, unsigned int flags,
1194 		  void *data);
1195 int fuse_fs_poll(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path,
1196 		 struct fuse_file_info *fi, struct fuse_pollhandle *ph,
1197 		 unsigned *reventsp);
1198 int fuse_fs_fallocate(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path, int mode,
1199 		 off_t offset, off_t length, struct fuse_file_info *fi);
1200 ssize_t fuse_fs_copy_file_range(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path_in,
1201 				struct fuse_file_info *fi_in, off_t off_in,
1202 				const char *path_out,
1203 				struct fuse_file_info *fi_out, off_t off_out,
1204 				size_t len, int flags);
1205 off_t fuse_fs_lseek(struct fuse_fs *fs, const char *path, off_t off, int whence,
1206 		    struct fuse_file_info *fi);
1207 void fuse_fs_init(struct fuse_fs *fs, struct fuse_conn_info *conn,
1208 		struct fuse_config *cfg);
1209 void fuse_fs_destroy(struct fuse_fs *fs);
1210 
1211 int fuse_notify_poll(struct fuse_pollhandle *ph);
1212 
1213 /**
1214  * Create a new fuse filesystem object
1215  *
1216  * This is usually called from the factory of a fuse module to create
1217  * a new instance of a filesystem.
1218  *
1219  * @param op the filesystem operations
1220  * @param op_size the size of the fuse_operations structure
1221  * @param private_data Initial value for the `private_data`
1222  *            field of `struct fuse_context`. May be overridden by the
1223  *            `struct fuse_operations.init` handler.
1224  * @return a new filesystem object
1225  */
1226 struct fuse_fs *fuse_fs_new(const struct fuse_operations *op, size_t op_size,
1227 			    void *private_data);
1228 
1229 /**
1230  * Factory for creating filesystem objects
1231  *
1232  * The function may use and remove options from 'args' that belong
1233  * to this module.
1234  *
1235  * For now the 'fs' vector always contains exactly one filesystem.
1236  * This is the filesystem which will be below the newly created
1237  * filesystem in the stack.
1238  *
1239  * @param args the command line arguments
1240  * @param fs NULL terminated filesystem object vector
1241  * @return the new filesystem object
1242  */
1243 typedef struct fuse_fs *(*fuse_module_factory_t)(struct fuse_args *args,
1244 						 struct fuse_fs *fs[]);
1245 /**
1246  * Register filesystem module
1247  *
1248  * If the "-omodules=*name*_:..." option is present, filesystem
1249  * objects are created and pushed onto the stack with the *factory_*
1250  * function.
1251  *
1252  * @param name_ the name of this filesystem module
1253  * @param factory_ the factory function for this filesystem module
1254  */
1255 #define FUSE_REGISTER_MODULE(name_, factory_) \
1256 	fuse_module_factory_t fuse_module_ ## name_ ## _factory = factory_
1257 
1258 /** Get session from fuse object */
1259 struct fuse_session *fuse_get_session(struct fuse *f);
1260 
1261 /**
1262  * Open a FUSE file descriptor and set up the mount for the given
1263  * mountpoint and flags.
1264  *
1265  * @param mountpoint reference to the mount in the file system
1266  * @param options mount options
1267  * @return the FUSE file descriptor or -1 upon error
1268  */
1269 int fuse_open_channel(const char *mountpoint, const char *options);
1270 
1271 #ifdef __cplusplus
1272 }
1273 #endif
1274 
1275 #endif /* FUSE_H_ */
1276