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authorGravatar Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>2016-10-10 15:52:15 -0700
committerGravatar Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>2016-10-13 10:35:12 -0700
commitdc436101370e0ab2ea4d3a2a3454711ad7051ae8 (patch)
treece2f8849c607282ad3b5ea0c37fa2a4a45712c50 /include
parent054c03943a6dc6a84ec7e52adcc661988b954871 (diff)
do_init(): treat command line options consistently
Previously, some command line options would change the FUSE defaults but leave the final value to the file systems `init` handler while others would override any changes made by `init`. Now, command line options do both: they modify the default, *and* take precedence.
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/fuse_common.h7
-rw-r--r--include/fuse_lowlevel.h9
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/fuse_common.h b/include/fuse_common.h
index 4a0e94b..55f0de2 100644
--- a/include/fuse_common.h
+++ b/include/fuse_common.h
@@ -167,12 +167,15 @@ struct fuse_conn_info {
unsigned max_readahead;
/**
- * Capability flags, that the kernel supports
+ * Capability flags that the kernel supports (read-only)
*/
unsigned capable;
/**
- * Capability flags, that the filesystem wants to enable
+ * Capability flags that the filesystem wants to enable.
+ *
+ * libfuse attempts to initialize this field with
+ * reasonable default values before calling the init() handler.
*/
unsigned want;
diff --git a/include/fuse_lowlevel.h b/include/fuse_lowlevel.h
index 63c59c9..bad1d45 100644
--- a/include/fuse_lowlevel.h
+++ b/include/fuse_lowlevel.h
@@ -165,7 +165,14 @@ struct fuse_lowlevel_ops {
/**
* Initialize filesystem
*
- * Called before any other filesystem method
+ * This function is called when libfuse establishes
+ * communication with the FUSE kernel module. The file system
+ * should use this module to inspect and/or modify the
+ * connection parameters provided in the `conn` structure.
+ *
+ * Note that some parameters may be overwritten by options
+ * passed to fuse_session_new() which take precedence over the
+ * values set in this handler.
*
* There's no reply to this function
*