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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:30:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
To: Gary Poppitz <poppitzg@iomega.com>
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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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