Re: Compiling C++ modules

From: Daniel Barkalow
Date: Mon Apr 24 2006 - 16:30:14 EST


On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Gary Poppitz wrote:

> I have the task of porting an existing file system to Linux. This code is in
> C++ and I have noticed that the Linux kernel has
> made use of C++ keywords and other things that make it incompatible.

You probably want to look into FUSE. C++ isn't going to be supported in
the kernel, for a variety of reasons, but filesystems don't have to be in
the kernel these days. FUSE seems to have C++ bindings with templates and
stuff, too, so it should be an easy task.

-Daniel
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