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 _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
