From: "Paul Smith" Subject: Re: [OT] (autofs) Re: Direct mounts on Linux Date: 21 Jan 2003 02:59:20 -0500 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <15916.14776.460148.770017@lemming.engeast.baynetworks.com> <20030120214134.GE1042@questra.com> <20030121030851.GG10369@questra.com> <20030121040318.GI10369@questra.com> <20030121064851.GK10369@questra.com> <20030121072351.GC12523@questra.com> Reply-To: "Paul Smith" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: nfs@sourceforge.net Return-path: To: Scott Mcdermott In-Reply-To: <20030121072351.GC12523@questra.com> Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: %% Scott Mcdermott writes: sm> Paul Smith on Tue 21/01 02:05 -0500: >> No, I mean getcwd(3), the C runtime library function... if my program >> invokes this then it doesn't matter what the shell does. sm> Not if you chdir("/") like a good little daemon Well, not everything that I run is a daemon... and yet it still may need to run getcwd() :). sm> yeah I know, I get your point :) If that is the only argument sm> against direct mounts though, I really don't understand statements sm> like "[Autofs. Will. Never. Support. Direct. Maps. Period. sm> Full Stop.]" sm> (see autofs mailing list archives from H. Peter Anvin) I dunno either. Maybe this has more to do with the unclean hacks required to implement direct mounts in the kernel than the issues the user has with direct mounts from the outside. Anyway, this is probably pretty OT for this list, and it's time for me to go to bed! Thanks all... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs