On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 12:00 PM Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwenn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 3:48 PM Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > BTW, since you are one of the first (publicly announced) users of > > FUSE passthrough, it would be helpful to get feedback about API, > > which could change down the road and about your wish list. > > I guess it is too late to change now, but I noticed that > fuse_backing_map takes the file descriptors and backing IDs as signed > int32. Why int32 and not uint32 ? open(2) is documented as never > returning negative integers. > It seemed safer this way and allows to extend the API with special return codes later. Why? what is to gain from uint32 in this API? Thanks, Amir.
