On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Stef Bon <stef...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm building a construction serving the user in his/her homedirectory > easy access to various resources like > a SMB share, USB stick, partition on harddisks etc. See: > > http://linux.bononline.nl/projects/mount.md5key.new/ > > I'm wondering, when writing a fuse module to get access to an Internet > service like Flickr or a webservice > like a cloud, is libevent required??
Well, Libevent is only a library that provides compatibility across different operating systems' asynchronous IO facilities. As such, it is basically never *required* for a new project; you could always replace it with direct calls to the underlying OS facilities. Since FUSE is Linux-only, you could probably just write your networking code to use epoll or aio and forget about portability layers. As for the question of whether you *should* or *could* use Libevent in implementing a user-space filesystem... I don't know why you couldn't. You can get an intro to what libevent can do for you at http://www.wangafu.net/~nickm/libevent-book/ . Only you can decide whether that functionality is a good fit for your program, though. yrs, -- Nick *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.
