At 23:55 +0800 Ian Kent wrote:
> I think I know why this isn't working.
> It's due to the conversion to a threaded model.
> And I fairly sure it can't work within v5 if we don't make changes.
> It's actually quite difficult.
I appreciate this--thanks for taking the time to understand it :)
> Basically, the daemon doesn't ever trigger a mount itself and since
> there is only one daemon now you can't cause a mount to happen in
> another mount point.
Yes.. (that's why the accept() patch doesn't help); it may need some kind
of ability to recurse.
For bonus points, the following scenario is a quick route to a nasty
deadlock in autofs{3,4}: /a/1 binds to :/b/2; /b/2 binds to :/a/1. Having
some kind of cycle-detection might prevent some difficult-to-diagnose
crashes. (It happened to us..)
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