From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
autofs@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: compat: autofs v5 packet size ambiguity - update
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:48:23 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1329961703.2244.8.camel@perseus.themaw.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwkYkSC1O=fWtj1CBAeKDP-ogEL4Mai8U-dd2uCMArppw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 08:12 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> 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.
>
> The autofs "mount" is done by fork + execve("mount").
It's done like this when mounting things inside an already mounted
indirect autofs mount or when mounting things on autofs direct mount
triggers but, in version 5, mount(2) has always used to mount autofs
file systems.
Ian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-23 1:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-22 2:24 Linus Torvalds
2012-02-22 3:16 ` David Miller
2012-02-22 3:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-22 3:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-22 4:20 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-22 4:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-22 5:43 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-22 5:53 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-22 5:57 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-22 9:32 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-22 12:15 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-22 12:39 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-22 12:45 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-22 16:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-22 15:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-23 1:35 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-22 16:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-23 1:48 ` Ian Kent [this message]
2012-02-23 1:54 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-23 2:21 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-23 6:29 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-23 6:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-23 11:20 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-23 11:26 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-23 8:54 ` Thomas Meyer
2012-02-23 1:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-23 2:09 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-23 2:11 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-23 2:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-23 2:32 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-25 11:28 ` Thomas Meyer
2012-02-25 22:10 ` [PATCH] autofs4: fix compilation without CONFIG_COMPAT Andreas Schwab
2012-02-26 1:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-26 1:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-26 1:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-26 3:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-26 9:05 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-02-27 7:29 ` Christian Borntraeger
2012-02-27 9:09 ` Heiko Carstens
2012-02-27 16:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-27 16:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-27 9:20 ` Ian Kent
2012-02-22 6:02 ` compat: autofs v5 packet size ambiguity - update H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-22 16:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-22 17:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-22 17:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-22 18:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-22 18:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-22 18:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
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