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The VFS library can be used in single-threaded or multi-threaded environments and depending on that, signals are handled by the same thread which uses the VFS library or possibly by a different thread. If a VFS plugin needs to block to wait for a signal, there is currently no way which works reliably in both environments. For this reason, this commit makes the interface of the VFS library nonblocking, similar to the File_system session interface. The most important changes are: - Directories are created and opened with the 'opendir()' function and the directory entries are read with the recently introduced 'queue_read()' and 'complete_read()' functions. - Symbolic links are created and opened with the 'openlink()' function and the link target is read with the 'queue_read()' and 'complete_read()' functions and written with the 'write()' function. - The 'write()' function does not wait for signals anymore. This can have the effect that data written by a VFS library user has not been processed by a file system server yet when the library user asks for the size of the file or closes it (both done with RPC functions at the file system server). For this reason, a user of the VFS library should request synchronization before calling 'stat()' or 'close()'. To make sure that a file system server has processed all write request packets which a client submitted before the synchronization request, synchronization is now requested at the file system server with a synchronization packet instead of an RPC function. Because of this change, the synchronization interface of the VFS library is now split into 'queue_sync()' and 'complete_sync()' functions. Fixes #2399 |
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