Re: autofs v4: speak now or forever hold your peace

[H. Peter Anvin]

> I totally agree. A daemon is a service program which should be able
> to be started and stopped like any other service program by the
> system administator.  Especially under Linux, which is one of most
> stable operation systems I worked with, it would help to design
> daemons in a coherent service friendly manner.
> 
> 
> Maybe it is just me, but it always hurts me, if I have to reboot a machines,
> just because I scewed it up so much that no clean simple kills will help any
> more.

Note you can certainly stop autofs, but you might have to clean up
manually before you can restart.  The only other option would be for
autofs to refuse to shut down if any of its filesystems are in use,
like it does if it gets SIGUSR1 (I think...)

        -hpa