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From: Lukas Kolbe <lukas@einfachkaffee.de>
Subject: Re: Race condition in autofs 4.1.4
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:10:47 +0100
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On Sa, 2007-01-27 at 02:12 +0900, Ian Kent wrote:

> > In syslog I get random messages like this:
> > Jan 26 16:39:29 demon automount[16757]: mount(generic): warning: /homes/musr657 is already mounted
> > Jan 26 16:39:42 demon automount[17062]: mount(generic): warning: /nfs4homes/musr946 is already mounted
> > for exactly the mountpoints that belong to root afterwards.
> 
> Your mtab locking is broken.
> Get a mount(8) that's not broken and then re-evaluate.

Thanks for the pointer. I found a discussion you were involved in in the
util-linux-ng mailinglist at the beginning of january, is that the
locking you talk about (see
http://www.mail-archive.com/util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org/msg00005.html)?

I'll have a look at it on monday and see if I can patch our mount and if
it makes a difference!

> Ian

Kind regards,
Lukas