Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: compat: autofs v5 packet size ambiguity - update | From | Ian Kent <> | Date | Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:48:23 +0800 |
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On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 08:12 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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.
Sorry, I think your wrong this time.
> > The autofs "mount" is done by fork + execve("mount").
It's done like this when mounting things inside an already mounted indirect autofs mount or when mounting things on autofs direct mount triggers but, in version 5, mount(2) has always used to mount autofs file systems.
Ian
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