Todd Shoemaker wrote:

> 
> Assuming that /mnt/autofloppy has an entry in fstab.  I've often wondered why 
> autofs has so much code when mount & umount already do all of this, and it 
> seems like autofs should be just a thin wrapper to call them.  I'm sure there 
> is a good technical reason for the extra code and extra complexity.

 >

That's basically what it already is.  However, it isn't so easy when you 
take into account race conditions, and having to suspend processes etc. etc.

        -hpa




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