| bigbiff bigbiff | 9c75405 | 2013-01-09 09:09:08 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Libfuse for Android |
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| 3 | FUSE[1] is a framework to develop userspace file systems for linux. Since Android is based on linux, it won't be too difficult to port libfuse to Android. |
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| 5 | The main problem of building and running libfuse on Android is that the bionic c library lacks support for pthread_cancel(), which is necessary for libfuse multi-thread code. This stackoverflow entry[2] has suggested a solution, which uses SIGUSR1 as an alternative. It seems to work. |
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| 7 | Libfuse can be build with Android NDK[3]. If success, you will get libfuse.a and an example program fusexmp. To run the example, the android kernel should be built with FUSE kernel support. |
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| 9 | References: |
| 10 | [1]. http://fuse.sourceforge.net |
| 11 | [2]. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4610086/pthread-cancel-alternatives-in-android-ndk |
| 12 | [3]. http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html |