Re: [ITP] FUSE 2.8

[Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

On 17/07/2016 03:02, Bill Zissimopoulos wrote:
> This package adds FUSE 2.8 support to Cygwin. FUSE is the well-known
> "Filesystem in Userspace" project for Linux and other platforms: [FUSE].
>
> FUSE file systems that use this package usually require minimal changes to
> run on Cygwin. For example, here are the pull requests I have submitted to
> SSHFS and FUSEPY to make them run on Cygwin: [SSHFS-PR], [FUSEPY-PR].
>
> FUSE file systems that use this package will expose a file system not just
> to Cygwin, but to ALL of Windows (i.e. Explorer, cmd.exe and all of
> Windows apps will be able to access their files). For this to work the
> cygfuse.dll in the package needs to interface with a kernel mode
> component, which does NOT ship as part of this package.
>
> Which brings me to a large caveat with this package. The package has an
> external dependency on my own open source project called WinFsp [WINFSP].
> WinFsp includes the necessary kernel-mode driver that enables the
> FUSE-like functionality on Windows. Unfortunately this driver can only be
> built with Microsoft tools. Furthermore it must be signed with an EV
> certificate (and going forward Microsoft will soon require that they sign
> every kernel mode driver themselves through the sysdev portal).
>
> For this reason you cannot simply get the source code for the FUSE cygport
> and WinFsp and compile everything from scratch. This is not a licensing
> issue (all code is AGPLv3), but a tools/signing issue. The alternatives
> are:
>
> 1. Accept the FUSE cygport package as is. Understand that it requires
> prior installation of WinFsp in order to properly work.

libusb0 has similar requirements

Extract from the setup.ini
-------------------------------------------------------------------
message: libusb0 "In order to use libusb0, you must download and run the
LibUSB-Win32 driver installer from:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/libusb-win32/files/libusb-win32-releases/1.2.6.0/libusb-win32-devel-filter-1.2.6.0.exe";
---------------------------------------------------------------------

similar  mDNSResponder and avahi.

> 2. Accept the FUSE cygport package, but require that the package downloads
> and installs the WinFsp MSI (perhaps as part of its post install process).

That will be complicated, I prefer #1

> 3. Reject this package.
>
> I have currently implemented option (1) but I am happy to change to option
> (2). The package files can be found at [CYGFUSE]. The source code for the
> package can be found under the opt/cygfuse directory in this repository:
> [WINFSP-GH]
>
>
>     pkill sshfs
>
> Comments greatly appreciated.
>
> Bill

Regards
Marco