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 ke
 rnel.

Any help would be really appreciated !

Thanks,
Thierry Bultel