On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Jim Carter wrote: > On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Ian Kent wrote: > > One consequence of this is that when cd'ing to a directory we will have to > > trigger the mount. To do it any other way will mean, essentially, > > rewriting autofs4 from the ground up.... > > Am I missing something here? If your process "cd"s to a directory, you > aren't changing to the mount point, you're changing to the referent. That > is only allowed if you have X permission, and the only way the local kernel > can know that is to first mount the referent, and subsequently stat the > mount-root. > > So it doesn't bother me that "cd" triggers mounting, even though in 0.1% of > the cases the process might "cd" elsewhere immediately without looking at > any files within the mount-root. In most cases the very next system call > will be either to list the directory content or to open a file already > known to be in that directory, using a relative path. So the mount is > hardly ever wasted.
Yes. It seemed like a fair policy to me. I've stubonly resisted changing anything outside of the autofs4 module but in this case the increase in complexity for the module, if it can be done at all, is not worth it. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
