On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 11:00 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> I want automount to use PATH when it tries to run e.g. "mount",
> because I want it to work regardless where my mount binary is
> (/bin or /usr/bin or...). I do have different system with different
> paths to some binaries, and it is pain in the ass - I have
> no way to explain to automount binary that it needs to look
> in another directory.
Yes, people have asked for this fairly often.
I've resisted so far but perhaps I'm just wrong to do so.
I'll have a look at this and think about it for a little while.
>
> I am trying to make automount using 'short' names it by passing
> variables to configure:
>
> MOUNT="mount" \
> UMOUNT="umount" \
> E2FSCK="fsck.ext2" \
> E3FSCK="fsck.ext3" \
> ./configure ............
>
> I think it's reasonably safe since automount is started by root
> and root is expected to set PATH sanely.
>
> And it still doesn't work, because you are using execv(), not execvp().
>
> This patch replaces execv() with execvp().
>
> It should change nothing for 'normally' configured automount since
> it passes fully qualified names ("/bin/mount") to exec and PATH
> is not used in this case.
>
> Please consider applying.
> --
> vda
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