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SubjectRe: autofs: kernel-assisted automounter
> I vaguely recall problems with kernel-level automounters in general really
> messing things up on a hanging mount, and that multithreading within the
> automounter was the answer. How does Linux autofs handle this?

Currently, I believe it doesn't. It could be easily enhanced to support
that, though. The actual mounting still happens in user space. The automount
daemon invokes the mount command using fork/exec/waitpid. If you omit the
waiting part, you could have several mounts in progress, working around
hanging mounts.

Regards,
Martin

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