Ian, Keep up the good work and thanks again for maintaining this.
We will wait for our distribution (RHEL) to backport these changes. On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Ian Kent <ra...@themaw.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is long overdue, even so, I think there are still some things > that need fixing but aren't clear cut. However there are too many > patches to delay any longer so here is release 5.0.6. > > The kernel patches are not being updated any more because of the > introduction of the vfs-automount changes to the VFS. If there > are needs in this area we will need to discuss how to deal with > them on the mailing list. > > Known issues (haven't changed since 5.0.5) > ========================================== > > - Quoted strings in the master map are still not yet handled. > - There is a problem with "mount --move" in some releases of SuSE > (perhaps other distributions as well) which can cause mounts to > not be moved correctly resulting in /etc/mtab continually growing > due to invalid entries. > - When the active restart is being used it will happily re-connect a > mount that is unresponsive, perhaps because the server is not > responding. A forced expire (USR1 signal) should be enough to clean > up. > > autofs > ====== > > The package can be found at: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v5 > > It is autofs-5.0.6.tar.[gz|bz2] > > No source rpm is there as it can be produced by using: > > rpmbuild -ts autofs-5.0.6.tar.gz > > and the binary rpm by using: > > rpmbuild -tb autofs-5.0.6.tar.gz > > See the INSTALL file for information about configure options and > kernel requirements. > > Here are the entries from the CHANGELOG which outline the updates: > > 28/06/2011 autofs-5.0.6 > ----------------------- > - fix included map read fail handling. > - refactor ldap sasl bind handling. > - add mount wait timeout parameter. > - special case cifs escapes. > - fix compile fail with when LDAP is excluded. > - more code analysis corrections (and fix a typo in an init script). > - fix backwards #ifndef INET6. > - fix stale initialization for file map instance. > - add "preen" fsck for ext4 mounts. > - don't use master_lex_destroy() to clear parse buffer. > - make documentation for set-log-priority clearer. > - fix timeout in connect_nb(). > - fix pidof init script usage. > - check for path mount location in generic module. > - dont fail mount on access fail. > - fix rpc fail on large export list. > - fix memory leak on reload. > - update kernel patches for 2.6.18 and 2.6.19. > - dont connect at ldap lookup module init. > - fix random selection option. > - fix disable timeout. > - fix strdup() return value check (Leonardo Chiquitto). > - fix reconnect get base dn. > - add missing sasl mutex callbacks. > - fix get query dn failure. > - fix ampersand escape in auto.smb. > - add locality as valid ldap master map attribute. > - add locality as valid ldap master map attribute fix. > - add simple bind authentication. > - fix master map source server unavailable handling. > - add autofs_ldap_auth.conf man page. > - fix random selection for host on different network. > - make redhat init script more lsb compliant. > - don't hold lock for simple mounts. > - fix remount locking. > - fix wildcard map entry match. > - fix parse_sun() module init. > - dont check null cache on expire. > - fix null cache race. > - fix cache_init() on source re-read. > - fix mapent becomes negative during lookup. > - check each dc server individually. > - fix negative cache included map lookup. > - remove state machine timed wait. > - remove extra read master map call. > - fix error handing in do_mount_indirect(). > - expire thread use pending mutex. > - remove ERR_remove_state() openssl call. > - fix init script restart option. > - fix init script status privilege error. > - always read file maps mount lookup map read fix. > - fix direct map not updating on reread. > - add external bind method. > - fix add simple bind auth. > - add option to dump configured automount maps. > - use weight only for server selection. > - fix isspace() wild card substition. > - auto adjust ldap page size. > - fix prune cache valid check. > - fix mountd vers retry. > - fix expire race. > - replace GPLv3 code. > - fix paged ldap map read. > - fix next task list update. > - fix stale map read. > - fix null cache clean. > - automount(8) man page correction. > - fix out of order locking in readmap. > - include ip address in debug logging. > - mount using address for DNS round robin host names. > - reset negative status on cache prune. > - remove master_mutex_unlock() leftover. > - fix sanity checks for brackets in server name. > - fix lsb service name in init script. > - fix map source check in file lookup. > - fix simple bind without SASL support. > - fix sasl bind host name selection. > - add nobind option. > - add base64 password encode. > - fix ipv6 name for lookup. > - fix libtirpc ipv6 check. > > Ian > > _______________________________________________ > autofs mailing list > autofs@linux.kernel.org > http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs > _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list autofs@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
