From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Takashi Yoshizawa <mz711@hotmail.com>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What is the purpose of AUTOFS_NEGATIVE_TIMEOUT?
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 16:21:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <411806F3.3000906@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY18-F10AKYVpMmOlb0000761f@hotmail.com>
Takashi Yoshizawa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> AUTOFS_NEGATIVE_TIMEOUT is defined in autofs_i.h. I want to know this
> purpose.
> In case of CD, "ls /mnt/cd/" without CD doesn't mount, and then insert CD,
> "ls /mnt/cd/" doesn't too. Why? I want it mount immediately.
>
autofs is not the tool of choice for removable media. A volume-insertion
daemon is.
The reason for the negative timeout is to keep an unprivileged user from
DoSing the system.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-09 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-28 10:03 What is the purpose of AUTOFS_NEGATIVE_TIMEOUT? Takashi Yoshizawa
2004-08-06 2:56 ` Ian Kent
2004-08-09 23:21 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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2004-08-11 5:27 Takashi Yoshizawa
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