On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 21:56 +0100, Lukas Kolbe wrote: > On Di, 2007-01-30 at 01:55 +0900, Ian Kent wrote: > > > The system is now through more than 25000 mails, and hasn't hit the bug > > > yet. > > > When it finished delivering, I'll setup another mailbomb and stress it > > > over the night, let's cross fingers that it works. I'll then file a bug > > > with the debian util-linux package and attach the patch to it. > > > Not close()ing the "we_created_lockfile" in unlock_mtab() seems like a > > > bug to me, anyway ;) > > > > Ya, but it gets closed at exit anyway. > > Ah, of course! > > I sent a mail earlier today, but it didn't come through to the list, > dunno why, hence the Cc: on you. > > The bug/race hit again when the system delivered about 95% of the mail, > with a few directories in /homes/ and /nfs4homes/ that belonged to root > and were empty, with an error in syslog that said "/homes/musrXXX > already mounted" (I don't have the exact messages here, can post them > tomorrow when I'm in the office).
An interesting dilemma, either let the process continue and risk corrupting mtab or not update the mtab for a mount that is already succeeded or possibly wait forever on a stale mtab lock file. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
