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30 lines
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# The mount sequence
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FUSE mounting is a little bit tricky. There's a userspace helper tool
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that performs the handshake with the kernel, and then steps out of the
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way. This helper behaves differently on different platforms, forcing a
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more complex API on us.
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## Successful runs
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On Linux, the mount is immediate and file system accesses wait until
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the requests are served.
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On OS X, the mount becomes visible only after `InitRequest` (and maybe
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more) have been served.
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## Errors
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Let's see what happens if `InitRequest` gets an error response. On
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Linux, the mountpoint is there but all operations will fail:
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On OS X, the mount never happened:
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