On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On 28 Dec, ramana wrote:
> 
> > Here is the bug in autofs3 module which causing so much pain. It simply 
> > stopped me from adding much more interesting features to Autodir 
> > http://www.intraperson.com/autodir/
> [snip]
> > Because of this, user space test program reporting like this:
> > 
> > fail : /test/t944 : No such file or directory
> > fail : /test/t4187 : No such file or directory
> 
> Hmm.. I wonder if this might be related to a weirdness we're seeing. Running
> autofs-4.1.3 with previous latest patch to kernel (pre-2005 release) and users
> use LSF to submit batch jobs to hosts.  On linux hosts, user level programs
> will sometimes exit quickly with a "file does not exist" error, even though 
> you
> can login to the host and see the file/dir just fine.  As a hacked
> work-around, we have a pre-exec script that tries to stat all the directories
> they need to force the mounts to happen before their program touches the
> files.

Does the stat actually mount anything?
It shouldn't?

Ian

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