Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: autofs bug report | Date | Sat, 19 Sep 1998 12:35:34 -0700 (PDT) |
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> On 19 Sep 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > There is a bug in autofs 3.1.1 with linux 2.1.122. If you manually > > > mount a filesystem onto it's mount point as specified in the > > > > This is really a case of "don't do that, then"; this means someone > > with root privileges has done something fundamentally stupid. And > > yes, it does cause deadlock. I don't really consider this a bug; a > > wart, perhaps, and not one worth spending a lot of time on. > > > > I seriously disagree. If we expect to put linux into the public use; > we have to expect such silliness to happen. We should be prepared for > such cases.. I agree; it's mostly due to being root; however this > isn't always the case.
No, if you weren't root you couldn't make this operation. The problem is a deadlock within /bin/mount (it would have to be fixed by mount). But it can only be caused by root, and the symptoms are relatively harmless.
-hpa
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