On 04/27/2012 12:08 PM, David Miller wrote: >> >> Umm. The thing is, those broken binaries *work* on 32-bit. They were >> *tested* on 32-bit. They were *shipped* on 32-bit. > > As were the automount binaries. > > systemd coded to an interface which did not exist in reality, and if > they had used the automountd sources as a reference (the only other > user of this interface) they would have seen this. > > Look, I can almost guarantee that whoever wrote the automountd > workaround code looked at this situation and said "yeah, it's > impossible to get this right in the kernel for all cases for v5, so > let's just do it where we _can_ be absolutely certain and that's here > in this userland routine doing the autofs stuff" > > And you know what, whoever that guy was, he was right. The workaround in automount is a mistake too, though. The better solution would have been to swallow the extra zero field; data driven. -hpa -- 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
