On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:32 +0200, Matthias Koenig wrote:
> Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 18:21 +0200, Matthias Koenig wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> we noticed a problem concerning loop mounts on locations that 
> >> have to be mounted before. E.g. consider the following situation,
> >> a NFS server exporting a cd image, which we want to loop mount
> >> locally to get access to the content:
> >> 
> >> auto.master:
> >> /cdimage        auto.cdimage
> >> /cdcontent      auto.cdcontent
> >> 
> >> auto.cdimage:
> >> foo             nfsserver:/cdimage/foo.img
> >> 
> >> auto.cdcontent:
> >> foo             -fstype=auto,loop       :/cdimage/foo/foo.img
> >> 
> >> The access to /cdcontent/foo will fail, when /cdimage/foo is not 
> >> mounted before, because spawn_mount does not use SPAWN_OPT_ACCESS
> >> in this case.
> >> The patch below fixes this problem.
> >
> > I can't remember now.
> > I wonder why I don't always call access?
> > I must have had a reason, let me think about it for a while.
> 
> Yes, I first tried to set SPAWN_OPT_ACCESS as default, but this did
> not work and had the negative effect, that NFS mounts could not
> be mounted anymore, because an access() has been done on the
> NFS location description "nfsserver:/cdimage", which then fails.

Of course, I'll go with you're patch.
Thanks
Ian


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