Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: compat: autofs v5 packet size ambiguity - update | From | Ian Kent <> | Date | Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:32:02 +0800 |
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On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 18:25 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote: > > > > Sure, that's true, and you'll see it uses the mount option maxproto with > > the value of AUTOFS_MAX_PROTO_VERSION. But autofs uses it's own copy of > > the headers so AUTOFS_MAX_PROTO_VERSION is 4 not 5 so it won't be > > affected by this change. > > Ok. > > I fetched your git tree, and it seems this changed to use mount() > directly in commit a74f68c99d9f ("integrated master map parsing into > daemon") back in 2006. > > Which seems to be part of autofs_5_0_0_beta1, so I guess we're safe. I > hope no distro ever used any early pre-beta versions of autofs that > had the new packet support but still used the external 'mount' > command.
If there are they have bigger automount problem than the kernel packet size, ;)
It really didn't become usable until at least the rc releases and the actual first non-test release was 5.0.1, we never had a 5.0.0.
Ian
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