Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] autofs4 symlink size | Date | 24 Oct 2001 13:24:10 -0700 |
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Followup to: <20011024102050.A12112@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> By author: linux@sigint.cs.purdue.edu In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > I sent this to the autofs4 maintainer a while ago, but never heard back. > autofs4 doesn't return a size for the symlinks it creates, which is > inconsistent with other filesystems. (The Almquist shell uses the sizes > of path components to allocate buffers during a walk, so it can't traverse > autofs4-linked paths.) >
That's IMNSHO a bug in the Almquist shell, at least if autofs4 returns zero, but it's also a bug in autofs4.
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