Nicolas Williams wrote:

> And, further, automountd forks again:

> where automountd_wait_for_cleanup() just waits for the child and then
> exits.  The parent there seems to exist to serve door requests on
> did_fork_exec and did_exec_map, but why must that be done in a separate
> process when both processes run with the same credentials and
> privileges?

This part is due to hangs we had when using executable
maps (ick).  See 6368753 for more.

Rob T

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