Charles-François Natali <neolo...@free.fr> added the comment: > I see no evidence that this is a bug in Linux,
""" stat("/net/prodigy", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 mkdir("/net/prodigy/tmp", 0777) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) """ As you can see, a stat() is already done on /net/prodigy. Event if it wasn't done, calling mkdir() ought to trigger the mount. So this is *definitely* as bug in autofs. > and I think it's ridiculous to close it when a trivial one-line fix is > available. Which one-line fix do you propose? > I won't reopen it because it's obvious no one wants to address this. :( It's not that we don't want to address this, but rather that we want to avoid introducing hacks to work around OS bugs. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14702> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com