Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:12:45 -0800 | Subject | Re: compat: autofs v5 packet size ambiguity - update |
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote: > > Oh, DOH ... > > The process mounting the autofs mount is passing the pipe it will use > for communication via a mount option so we can do this right in > fill_super.
No, we really cannot.
The autofs "mount" is done by fork + execve("mount").
So fill_super doesn't actually see the *daemon*. It sees the mount binary.
So if you have a 64-bit mount binary, and a 32-bit daemon, you're screwed again.
Linus
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