From: Gabriel Horner <cldwalker@...>
Date: 2005-10-02T21:21:45+09:00
Subject: Re: IO.select hangs with fusefs

Thanks. I should've thought of this in hindsight.

Gabriel

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 06:35:33AM +0900, Greg Millam wrote:
> >   I read about fusefs on why's page and found a commandline
> > interface to ActiveRecord very cool. I downloaded the latest
> > fuse (2.3) and latest fusefs(0.3) but when I run any of the sample
> > scripts it just hangs. Any of the sample scripts hang at the IO.select
> > call. I looked for documentation on this method on ruby-doc.org but its
> > not too clear to me how to use it correctly and thus troubleshoot it.
> > Any ideas on what's wrong or pointers to IO.select tutorials?
> > BTW, I'm running ruby 1.8.2.
> 
> Thanks for this - I'll include some sentences mentioning how this works
> (and possibly a method call to daemonize the process) in the next
> release of FuseFS.
> 
> The IO.select loop is intended to hang the script indefinitely. The
> kernel communicates with the script through a socket opened on
> /dev/fuse, and that socket is what IO.select is waiting for input on.
> 
> The proper method way to do this is either:
> 
> 1) start the script, then play around with the FS in another terminal
> 
> or 2) start the script in the background, then play with it.
>   ruby sample/yamlfs.rb mountpoint someyamlfile.yaml &
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> - Greg

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