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

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