[ITP] FUSE 2.8

Mark Geisert mark@maxrnd.com
Fri Jul 29 08:02:00 GMT 2016


Bill Zissimopoulos wrote:
> Hi, Mark:
>
> On 7/28/16, 10:29 AM, Mark Geisert wrote:
>
>
>>>>> Please be mindful if you intend to test that the current released
>>>>> binary
>>>>> of WinFsp does not support Windows 7. This is because the last release
>>>>> erroneously uses a Windows 8 only API (GetOverlappedResultEx).
>>>>
>>>> It's your call obviously but do you want to forgo Win 7 support when
>>>> many
>>>> of the
>>>> kind of developers who might be interested in FUSE on Windows are
>>>> delaying or
>>>> not bothering to upgrade to Win 8.x or Win 10 for various reasons?
>>>
>>> I agree. Win7 support will return soon. I am trying to get this fixed
>>> before I leave tomorrow, but I also have some real (as in paying) work
>>> to
>>> do so no guarantees.
>
> Just wanted to let you know that I have made a new public release of
> WinFsp, which should correctly work on all versions of Windows 7 and above.
>
> You can download it from here:
> 	http://www.secfs.net/winfsp/download/

Excellent!  Thanks for your patience and diligence on this.  I look forward to 
using WinFSP and taking over maintenance of the Cygwin end of it.
Cheers,

..mark



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