Re: Autofs and mount namespaces

[Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 08:51:03AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-04-07 at 11:19 -0700, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> > Hi, Ian,
> > 
> > I wanted to bring up the issue of autofs and mount namespaces again,
> > which recently resurfaced in the thread here [1]. In that thread, you
> > mentioned that you had some patches to make autofs namespace-aware
> > that
> > you were holding on to. Do you think you could put those up so we can
> > all work out the issues you mentioned?
> 
> I can but I haven't tested them at all.
> 
> Possibly I could post them to the autofs list if you want to test and
> probably make changes to get them working.
> 
> Would that be ok .... umm, I think I need to post the patch now anyway
> as it's the easiest way to demonstrate what I think is a better approach
> than the patch below ....
> 
> I'm struggling to get back to work on this but I'm getting there and
> hope to return to it soon.

Thanks for taking a look. Your patch fixes the case I provided, and it
does look much better than my hack :) Like you said in your other email,
there are more cases, but this fix is a good start independent of those
cases. Were there any other patches that needed testing?

-- 
Omar