This is really a case of "don't do that, then"; this means someone
with root privileges has done something fundamentally stupid. And
yes, it does cause deadlock. I don't really consider this a bug; a
wart, perhaps, and not one worth spending a lot of time on.
> For example, if I have this in my
> /etc/auto.vol: floppy -fstype=vfat,user :/dev/fd0 And do a mount
> /dev/fd0 /vol/floppy, I get this in my process list: 100 0 483 481
> 15 0 852 288 down_failed D ? 0:00 mount -- this is the mount
> spawned by automount. 100 0 480 76 9 0 856 292 end S 1 0:00 mount
> -- this is the manually spawned mount. What is probably happening
> is the first mount is locking /dev/fd0, and the second attempts to
> access it. It waits for the first one, which won't exit until the
> second one is done.
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