From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752042AbWISEL6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:11:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752038AbWISEL6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:11:58 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:21158 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752041AbWISEL4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:11:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:11:23 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Ian Kent Cc: autofs mailing list , Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel Subject: Re: [PATCH] autofs4 - zero timeout prevents shutdown Message-Id: <20060918211123.84e583cf.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:48:15 +0800 (WST) Ian Kent wrote: > If the timeout of an autofs mount is set to zero then umounts > are disabled. This works fine, however the kernel module checks > the expire timeout and goes no further if it is zero. This is > not the right thing to do at shutdown as the module is passed > an option to expire mounts regardless of their timeout setting. Is this a new feature, or a regression since ? Thanks.