Replying to myself...
Mark Geisert wrote:
Hi Thomas,
Thomas Wolff wrote:
What became of the winfsp-fuse project discussed in July 2016?
I'd like to be able to use ftpfs or sshfs in cygwin.
Integration of the project into Cygwin stalled around that time, or was it 2018?
[...]
I would love to have somebody interested in trying out FUSE on Cygwin. If you
require a cygfuse package I guess the first step for that would be for me to
reissue the ITP and make the package real. Another alternative would be for you
to build from the Github repo https://github.com/mgeisert/cygfuse if you're
feeling adventurous.
Our fuse package as it stands is not ready for use. When I last looked at it
years ago I was too new to both FUSE and project porting to understand what was
missing. Currently it's a source package that supplies a glue layer for Cygwin
apps to make use of WinFSP, a Windows FUSE driver. It also supplies source for a
Cygwin sshfs app that demonstrates correct operation of WinFSP via Cygwin.
I've now looked at and installed the most recent WinFSP. The Cygwin glue layer
works as well as it always had. But something is missing: integration with the
usual shell file manipulation commands. For example, one can't 'cd' into the
directory on which a foreign file system has been loaded. That seems like a major
issue unless I'm misunderstanding things.
Let me reach out to the WinFSP folks and see if I'm doing something wrong or if
there's additional work to be done on the Cygwin side. In any case the project
needs some smartening up. I plan to rename it FUSE for the upcoming ITP, to avoid
name conflict with libfuse* common on Linux.
I see that 'mtr' is another Cygwin package that makes use of a Windows driver via
libpcap. Maybe I can use mtr.cygport etc as a guide; I'm unsure whether a Cygwin
package should be including Windows drivers.
Thanks for reading; advice welcome,
..mark
