Just a few things I wrote down while getting the hang on Linux’ epoll working with a named pipe. There’s also a little test program at Github. Be sure to read this and this. An event list for a file descriptor can be added only once with epoll_ctl(…, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, …). Calling epoll_ctl for adding an [...]
Major disclaimer These are pretty random jots that I made while evaluating named pipes as a solution for project. I eventually went for a driver in the kernel for various reasons, so I never got to verify that anything written below is actually correct. I’ve also written a small post on epoll with named pipes [...]
Introduction Based upon CUSE, libusb and the kernel’s epoll capability, this is a single-threaded utility which generates one /dev/usbpiper_* device file for each bulk / interrupt endpoint on a USB device. For example, /dev/usbpiper_bulk_in_01 and /dev/usbpiper_bulk_out_03. It’s an unfinished project, that was stopped before a lot of obvious tasks in the TODO list were done. [...]
What this post is about Before anything: If you’re planning on using FUSE / CUSE for an application, be sure to read this first. It also explains why I bothered looking at the kernel code instead of using libfuse. So these are some quite random notes I took while trying to figure out how to [...]
First: If you’re planning on using FUSE / CUSE for an application, be sure to read this first. It also explains why I didn’t just take what libfuse offered. Overview This is a detour from another post of mine, which dissects the FUSE / CUSE kernel driver. I wrote this separate post on signal handling [...]
Introduction If you’re planning to use CUSE (or FUSE) for an application you care about, this post is for you. That includes future self. I’m summarizing my not-so-pleasant journey with this framework here, with focus on how I gradually realized that I should start from the scratch with an old-school kernel module instead. Most important, [...]