Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: compat: autofs v5 packet size ambiguity - update | From | Ian Kent <> | Date | Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:35:02 +0800 |
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On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 07:13 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 02/22/2012 01:32 AM, Ian Kent 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. > > > > Does that mean that the autofs v5 daemon calls mount() by itself, unlike > the older autofs daemon? Otherwise you're reading the compatness of > /bin/mount...
Version 5 does, yes.
There was nothing to be gained by the extra overhead of calling mount(8) since I wanted to minimize mtab usage and contention, and didn't want these showing up in mtab either.
> > -hpa >
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