Re: compat: autofs v5 packet size ambiguity - update

From: Ian Kent
Date: Thu Feb 23 2012 - 01:29:21 EST


On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 10:21 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 09:54 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 09:48 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 08:12 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
> >
> > On second thought, I suppose other user space users don't "have" to use
> > mount(2) ....
>
> Thomas, what does systemd use to mount the autofs mounts that it uses?

Mmm ... AFAICS systemd uses mount(2) so that looks OK too.

Ian

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