Re: Perl to mount a virtual filesystem on Windows?

A quick glance at the Dokan library documentation suggests to me that you could access the dokan.dll using Win32::API and thus provide a file system written in Perl. It seems to me that it would be a lot of work! The dokan authors strongly recommend that you use a Virtual Machine when you develop file system applications - that sounds like very sage advice to me!

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Re^2: Perl to mount a virtual filesystem on Windows? by isync (Hermit) on Dec 14, 2008 at 13:36 UTC
Thanks for the hint, I will have a look into it! But as you remarked that it would be a lot of work, I do not feel so inclined anymore to try it...	[reply]
Re^3: Perl to mount a virtual filesystem on Windows? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 20, 2009 at 15:22 UTC
I wrote some XS codes to use Dokan.dll from perl. It's a very early early version, not fully tested, but works. (ActivePerl Build 810, and VC++2008) Source code is available from: http://svn.sourceforge.jp/view/Win32-Dokan/?root=perl-fuse-fv (binary release is not available now)	[reply]
Re^4: Perl to mount a virtual filesystem on Windows? by isync (Hermit) on Mar 01, 2009 at 17:49 UTC
That is so good news! What a lucky accident that I had another look at this old thread... Keep up the good work, tofjw!	[reply]
Re^5: Perl to mount a virtual filesystem on Windows? by Anonymous Monk on Feb 09, 2010 at 23:01 UTC