On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Matt Bernstein wrote: > At 09:29 +0800 Ian Kent wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Matt Bernstein wrote: > > > +/* 'what' may itself be on an automounted file system so we need to > > > access it */ > > > +/* to ensure it gets mounted before calling wait_for_lock() inorder to > > > avoid a*/ > > > +/* long delay */ > > > + (void)access(what,F_OK); > > > > That can lead to corruption of /etc/mtab. > > That's why the lock was introduced. > > > > In v5 the locking can be disabled as most people have updated mount(8) these > > days. > > Thanks--is the locking disabled, or do we need to patch the source? (I haven't > looked at it yet.)
Yes it is in the FC6 packages. mount(8) has been patches to fix the locking in FC. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
