From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Pearson Subject: Re: Re: [autofs] Server/client mismatch over status of a mount ... Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:57:58 +0000 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3E510686.6899E7BE@moving-picture.com> References: <3E50EC51.6022D3A7@moving-picture.com> <20030217152036.GA23116@terminus.zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, autofs@linux.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mpc-26.sohonet.co.uk ([193.203.82.251] helo=moving-picture.com) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18knfN-0000Kr-00 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 07:58:49 -0800 To: Trond Myklebust Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: So, is there a possible workround? Thanks James Pearson Trond Myklebust wrote: > > >>>>> " " == H Peter Anvin writes: > > > Automount doesn't tell the server anything. It's possible that > > /bin/umount has this bug, however. > > That is correct. In the util-linux implemention of 'umount' the RPC > call is done before the actual syscall. > My guess is that this was decided upon in order to avoid races for the > case where some other process does another 'mount'. > > Cheers, > Trond ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs