Announcing macFUSE 4.6.2

Announcing macFUSE 4.6.2 Posted on 15 Mar 2024

Download macFUSE 4.6.2 macOS 10.9 to 14 Apple Silicon or Intel SHA-256: ee64053075ee4d7a1026505ebb22a58dd3638a8f7e74d186adaec265cf058c1f

Perform FUSE_INIT handshake synchronously during mount(2) operation. When performing the handshake synchronously, we avoid hangs and we are able to error out of the mount process in case the handshake fails.

We used to perform the handshake asynchronously. This has drawbacks and introduced several challenges. Most importantly, there is no guarantee the handshake will ever be completed by the file system daemon. This could result in lingering mount points.

Performing the handshake synchronously makes initialization more robust. This addresses osxfuse/osxfuse#653, osxfuse/osxfuse#668, osxfuse/osxfuse#793, osxfuse/osxfuse#826, osxfuse/osxfuse#856, osxfuse/osxfuse#874 and osxfuse/osxfuse#1003.
Clean up kernel extension code