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The mount sequence
FUSE mounting is a little bit tricky. There's a userspace helper tool that performs the handshake with the kernel, and then steps out of the way. This helper behaves differently on different platforms, forcing a more complex API on us.
Successful runs
On Linux, the mount is immediate and file system accesses wait until the requests are served.
On OS X, the mount becomes visible only after InitRequest (and maybe
more) have been served.
Errors
Let's see what happens if InitRequest gets an error response. On
Linux, the mountpoint is there but all operations will fail:
On OS X, the mount never happened:
