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From: Thierry BULTEL <thierry.bultel@wanadoo.fr>
To: autofs@linux.kernel.org
Subject: autofs design doc ?
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:51:14 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15446204.32971219413074178.JavaMail.www@wwinf2610> (raw)


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 Hi all,

I am currently looking at autofs, and
I would be interested to know if there exist such a documentation.
Namely, I am performing a kind of reverse-engineering on both the daemon 
and the kernel parts.

What I would like to understand, above all, is the detailed interaction 
scheme between automount and the kernel.
I have understood that automount was receiving orders through a pipe, 
and replying with ioctls, but
I still do not have the complete vision of the nature and timing of the 
messages. What are the respective responsibilities
of both parts ?
Also, I am still asking myself why a user daemon is used, and why not 
everything is not done in the kernel.

Any help would be really appreciated !

Thanks,
Thierry Bultel 

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-22 13:51 Thierry BULTEL [this message]
2008-08-25 13:26 ` autofs design doc ? Jeff Moyer

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