[HN Gopher] Show HN: Rssfs - An RSS reader written as a file system
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Show HN: Rssfs - An RSS reader written as a file system
Author : rhabarba
Score : 40 points
Date : 2020-05-10 17:07 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| petercooper wrote:
| What's the benefit of offering this via FUSE rather than having a
| program just fetch the same material and store it in the usual
| filesystem with the same folder and filenames? I assume there is
| one and I'm missing it. (Alternatively if this is for
| learning/experimenting, that's OK! :-))
| clktmr wrote:
| Not OP, but the benefit of the filesystem implementation is
| probably to only fetch the data on read.
| seqizz wrote:
| I started to think there is a wheel-of-fuse somewhere and people
| are rolling it to match random things to build as FS.
| rhabarba wrote:
| (This is my first try to play with FUSE. I hope it's still OK.)
|
| Windows support will follow later this year. Maybe. I'd really
| prefer to have two not-too-diverging code bases here. Need to
| experiment a bit...
| tyingq wrote:
| Winfsp maybe? It has a fuse compatibly layer (see fuse.h in the
| repo).
|
| http://www.secfs.net/winfsp/
| rumanator wrote:
| Why does your project require running as root?
| pengaru wrote:
| macOS and other non-Windows machines sudo ./rssfs
|
| Just what I always wanted; an RSS reader running as root. /s
|
| Why are you using sudo here? FUSE filesystems shouldn't require
| special privileges unless they're accessing privileged stuff like
| block devices owned by root.
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