State of FUSE on FreeBSD

[Nikolaus Rath]

Hello,

I am the upstream maintainer of libfuse. I'd like to refresh / improve
the FreeBSD support in libfuse. My goal is for libfuse not to require
any FreeBSD specific patches.

After taking a look at
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/tree/master/sbin/mount_fusefs,
https://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head/sysutils/fusefs-libs/, and
https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/issues/173, it seems to me that:

- A lot of upstream code that was actually intended to support FreeBSD
  is actually patched out when libfuse is installed via ports.

- The mount.fusefs and fusermount binaries are not installed from
  libfuse at all, and are instead provided by a "sysutils/fusefs-libs"
  package(?)

- Some additional patches are necessary to get libfuse to work.


Is that correct so far, or am I looking at the wrong place?


If so, my tentative plan would be to:
 
- Not build fusermount and mount.fusefs on FreeBSD at all. This would
  allow getting rid of mount_bsd.c (and the corresponding patch)
  completely.
  
- Integrate the helper.c patch upstream using #ifdefs

- As far as I can tell, the mount_util.[ch] patch is a no-op that should
  be dropped anyway.


Personally, I don't use FreeBSD and I don't have an easy way to test on
FreeBSD either. So I would appreciate any input.


Best,
-Nikolaus

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