On 28-Mar-00 Morong, Gerry wrote:
>
> When I stop autofs and several users have mounts busy, those
> mount points (with the busy mounts) don't get restarted. Autofs on
> Solaris,however, will pick up those busy mounts and manage them
> accordingly. Is this just the nature of autofs 3.1.3? Will version 4
> work around this problem?
Not really. You simply can't kill the daemon cleanly if its managing a
busy mount-point. When automount gets a SIGTERM it will try its hardest
to clean up and exit, but if either the autofs filesystem or one of the
other mounted filesystems is busy, there's nothing it can do.
The best that could possibly be done is to make it remember the pending
termination request and have it exit when it finally (if ever) becomes
idle.
J
