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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: compat: autofs v5 packet size ambiguity - update
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:13:48 -0800
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Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, autofs@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

On 02/22/2012 01:32 AM, Ian Kent wrote:
> 
> Oh, DOH ... 
> 
> The process mounting the autofs mount is passing the pipe it will use
> for communication via a mount option so we can do this right in
> fill_super.
> 

Does that mean that the autofs v5 daemon calls mount() by itself, unlike
the older autofs daemon?  Otherwise you're reading the compatness of
/bin/mount...

	-hpa

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