On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 5:26 AM, Enke Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Miklos: > > This patch adds the async option for the flush/release operation in FUSE. > > The async flush/release option allows a FUSE-based application to be > terminated > without being blocked in the flush/release operation even in the presence of > complex external interactions. In addition, the async operation can be more > efficient when a large number of fuse-based files is involved. > > --- > Deadlock Example: > > Process A is a multi-threaded application that interacts with Process B, > a FUSE-server. > > > UNIX-domain socket > App (A) ----------------------- FUSE-server (B) > | | > | | > | | > +-----------------------------------+ > open/flush/release
Why would the fuse server want to communicate with the app (using other than the filesystem)? Thanks, Miklos
