On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 15:14 -0400, David Miller wrote: > 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. There's nothing I can say in my defense, Linus has made that very clear, over and again. When I realized the alignment mistake there were already shipping binaries so I decided it was too late to change that. And I see I got the analysis of the architectures alignment wrong, mmmm, that's bad as well. I guess I'll just be quiet now since anything I say is probably going to be wrong. Ian -- 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
