Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix design error.

David Miller
2012-04-27T19:17:21Z

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:14:33 -0400 (EDT)

> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:55:12 -0700
>
>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Linus Torvalds
>> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> There's no question that systemd is broken.
>>
>> Actually, I'll take that back.
>>
>> Yes, systemd has breakage. But it's actually automount that is the
>> truly broken piece of sh*t.
>>
>> I think that 'automount' is even more broken. The fact that the
>> automount maintainers knew about this, and added TOTALLY BROKEN code
>> to their automount source tree, over five years ago, because the
>> authors clearly did not understand what the f*ck they were doing,
>> that's the real problem.
>
> I respectfully disagree.

BTW, I want to clarify that my position is that userland might have
been the best place to handle this rather than the kernel.

I fully recognize that the automountd test is busted on ppc, sparc,
et al.