Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Sep 1998 02:35:51 -0700 (PDT) | From | Russ Mennie <> | Subject | Re: autofs bug report |
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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.
Russ Philicom Enterprises
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