From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932165AbWISEjd (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:39:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752051AbWISEjd (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:39:33 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:19629 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751945AbWISEjc (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:39:32 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:38:53 -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: <20060918213853.d4628ba0.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1158640433.3003.20.camel@raven.themaw.net> References: <20060918211123.84e583cf.akpm@osdl.org> <1158640433.3003.20.camel@raven.themaw.net> 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 12:33:52 +0800 Ian Kent wrote: > On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 21:11 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > 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 ? > > It's a regression which I must have introduced a long time ago. I can go > back and check the kernels if you'd like more specific info. > > It should work this way and a recent report alerted me to it. > Well.. I'm trying to work out if it's a 2.6.18 thing or whether we can hold it over.