Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] autofs4 - use lookup access intent to support recursive bind mounts | From | Ian Kent <> | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:38:25 +0800 |
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On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 07:22 +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 02:14:54PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > For autofs maps that recursively reference other map entries in their > > mount point path we need to ensure that these mounts are performed > > prior to the current mount request being done. We've used the access > > system call, made just prior to performing the mount, to make this > > happen. In the case of bind mounts, however, the lookup flags in > > the path walk don't trigger a mount. To do this we need to also > > trigger a mount when we see the LOOKUP_ACCESS flag. > > That's too fscking bad, since ->lookup() is about to lose access to > nameidata *and* flags for anything but the last step. IOW, we'll need > cleaner solution...
Spell it out for me please! Ian
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