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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] buffer overflow, failure to auto-dismount,
 log file diarrhea
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 12:17:12 -0800
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To: Jim Carter <jimc@math.ucla.edu>
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Jim Carter wrote:
> 
>>A kill -9 on the blocked process needs further investigation. I'm not sure
>>what the situation is there (probably not good).
> 
> I would really like it if, when autofs decided to forcibly unmount, it
> could kill the using processes, as in "fuser -k -m /net/host/mountpoint".
> Actually this is a general issue for unmount(8), not specific to autofs.
> But one wonders whether fuser is going to run wild...
> 

How on the face of planet Earth do you expect autofs should ever take
such a drastic action?  This could only by a human deciding to do so,
and if so, it's not an issue for autofs, as long as human umounts are
properly handled (they should be.)

	-hpa