Ian Kent wrote:
>> But it is an utterly daft way to implement something like that. If you
>> want a lock, create an explicit lock, but doing string-matching on
>> command lines is idiotic.
>
> This isn't a lock or anything remotely like it.
It is a lock, or at least something remotely like it.
> And, yes, if run together closely enough the check could easily fail to
> work but that isn't what the check is about.
What is it about, then?
> Put another way, running multiple instances of the autofs version 5
> daemon isn't supported at the moment.
>
> For the common case usage multiple instances of the daemon aren't
> needed.
Pardon my earlier abrasiveness (I'm having a horrible day), but why not
simply have /var/lock/automount and flock() it?
That way there is a sane workaround if the special cases, too.
-hpa
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