From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:55:12 -0700 > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. It's ugly as shit, but it is the only one place where one can be absolutely sure that we are dealing with a pipe passing those v5 things around. All these hacks we have been talking about, assuming the mount means the pipe is for passing structure so-and-so around, and now trying to find some other check such as one on current->comm... That's better? Only the application really knows. And I bet the person who wrote that automountd code you find so distasteful analyzed this and came to realize how difficult the kernel side would be to get right. So they decided that the datastructure on 32-bit changes based upon whether we run on a 64-bit kernel or not, that's the interface the kernel has always exported, and therefore that's the interface it choose to use. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
