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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2014 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#ifndef __FUSE_SIDELOAD_H
+#define __FUSE_SIDELOAD_H
+
+// define the filenames created by the sideload FUSE filesystem
+#define FUSE_SIDELOAD_HOST_MOUNTPOINT "/sideload"
+#define FUSE_SIDELOAD_HOST_FILENAME "package.zip"
+#define FUSE_SIDELOAD_HOST_PATHNAME (FUSE_SIDELOAD_HOST_MOUNTPOINT "/" FUSE_SIDELOAD_HOST_FILENAME)
+#define FUSE_SIDELOAD_HOST_EXIT_FLAG "exit"
+#define FUSE_SIDELOAD_HOST_EXIT_PATHNAME (FUSE_SIDELOAD_HOST_MOUNTPOINT "/" FUSE_SIDELOAD_HOST_EXIT_FLAG)
+
+struct provider_vtab {
+    // read a block
+    int (*read_block)(void* cookie, uint32_t block, uint8_t* buffer, uint32_t fetch_size);
+
+    // close down
+    void (*close)(void* cookie);
+};
+
+int run_fuse_sideload(struct provider_vtab* vtab, void* cookie,
+                      uint64_t file_size, uint32_t block_size);
+
+#endif