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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:21:32 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: automount doesn't "follow" bind mounts
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Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 03:18:33PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>The problem is that autofs v4 is completely unmaintained at the moment.
> 
> 
> Is there a todo list or known set of outstanding problems with it?
> 

Not that I know of.  I don't believe the code has been analyzed for
races; in fact, it seems to me that there are inherent races in mount
point deconstruction.

	-hpa


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