Re: [PATCH] minor update for autofs4 for 2.3.99-pre5

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:45:55 -0700


Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> Here's a minor patch to autofs4. Most of it is cosmetic (for my
> convenience), but there's a couple of lines of real substance. The
> daemon can't initiate a mount with its accesses, so its best not to set
> AUTOFS_PENDING on dentries which are created by daemon accesses, since
> this confuses things.
>

Are you sure that won't open up a race condition if another process then
tries to access that path?

-hpa

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