On Fri, 19 May 2006, Latrell wrote:

> Hi All:
> 
> I have a problem with kill automount processes. My secenario is as follows:
> 5 automount processes running in my system. When I want to umount and stop 
> automount processes, I used kill pid1 pid2 pid3 pid4 pid5. The result is more 
> than 5 automount processes (8 in the case) in my system! Some automount 
> processes were killed, some automount processes fork processes! Did I do 
> something wrong?
> 
> I looked into the source code, and find the abnormal processes all blocked in 
> a while(ioctl(ap.ioctlfd,AUTOFS_IOC_EXPIRE_MULTI,&how)&&count--) of 
> automount.c and 
> the count didn't decrease.  I also noticed that when I kill less than 3 
> automount processes at the same time, the problem didn't happen. It seems 
> automount has problem
> dealing with too many kill at the same time. Please give me some advice.

Use the init script to stop autofs.

Ian

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