On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Joe Pruett wrote: > after sending it, i started wondering what the lock was there for. i wasn't > sure if each automount daemon was multi-threaded or not. what mount locking > are you referring to?
The lock was introduced to prevent corruption of /etc/mtab because the locking in mount for this purpose didn't work. There are patches for mount which I believe fix it. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
