Re: [PATCH] minor update for autofs4 for 2.3.99-pre5

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> Here's a minor patch to autofs4.  Most of it is cosmetic (for my
> convenience), but there's a couple of lines of real substance.  The
> daemon can't initiate a mount with its accesses, so its best not to set
> AUTOFS_PENDING on dentries which are created by daemon accesses, since
> this confuses things.
> 

Are you sure that won't open up a race condition if another process then
tries to access that path?

        -hpa