Re: Automounter does not start except at bootup

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>>> "H" == H Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Basically, in autofs v3 there is no way of taking control over an
> abandoned automount, and I haven't been planning on that kind of
> support for autofs v4 either; it is really hard to do and I see very
> little benefit to it.

Damn!  I admit I haven't had any trouble with autofs crashing or being killed
randomly, but I always hate it when I have to reboot a machine (or close
enough:  kill all the processes using some of the submounts) just because
I somehow killed the automounter.  And even tho as I said I haven't seen autofs
die, you can't dismiss the possibility.
Also, not being able to kill autofs without nasty side effects means that you
cannot upgrade autofs without those nasty side effects.
Being able to kill/restart daemons seems very important to me.  AutoFS is no
exception here.  I have no idea how hard it might be to provide such a feature,
and I'm not going to code it up any time soon, so I'll just stop whining.


        Stefan