FUSE for Cygwin

[Bill Zissimopoulos]

On 6/19/16, 4:20 AM, "cygwin-owner@cygwin.com on behalf of Herbert
Stocker" <cygwin-owner@cygwin.com on behalf of hersto@gmx.de> wrote:


>What i don't like on (3) is that when a Cygwin process accesses the
>FUSE file system there are two Cygwin processes whose communication
>is translated from Posix to Win32 and then back (which is done again
>for the response).
[snip]
>A) Besides the double double translations of every request, there
>    is also the need for four Kernel/Usermode transitions, which take
>    their time.

By the way Herbert in re-reading your email, you may *not* have meant to
say that in the current WinFsp/FUSE scheme there are 4 *context switches*
(instead of 2), in which case my apologies for trying to explain something
you already were aware of.


Bill