From: Amit Gud <gud@eth.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2 / 2] Move NFS mount code from
 util-linux	tonfs-utils - take2
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:36:13 -0400
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Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, bunk@stusta.de,
	nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>,
	Amit Gud <agud@redhat.com>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
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Ian Kent wrote:
> Hi Amit,
> 
> I see that the mtab locking here has the patches that should make it
> work properly (at least I believe that is the case) but if that same fix
> is not implemented in the util-linux code base then the problem will
> persist.
> 
> Perhaps Adrian Bunk should be involved in this since he will ultimately
> need to update util-linux as well?
> 

util-linux already uses this locking protocol (which is included in the 
patches), in fact that code is duplicated now in nfs-utils. But theres 
code like the samba client (mount.cifs), that doesn't follow this and 
have implemented some different mechanism.


AG
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