On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 13:23, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> By author: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > I sent this to the autofs4 maintainer a while ago, but never heard back.
> > autofs4 doesn't return a size for the symlinks it creates, which is
> > inconsistent with other filesystems. (The Almquist shell uses the sizes
> > of path components to allocate buffers during a walk, so it can't traverse
> > autofs4-linked paths.)
> >
>
> That's IMNSHO a bug in the Almquist shell, at least if autofs4 returns
> zero, but it's also a bug in autofs4.
I'll push the patch to Linus once I've given it bit of a test (it's
trivial, but...). That said, I'd be surprised if anyone cares: isn't
everyone using bind mounts now?
J
