On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 14:46 +0100, David Howells wrote: > Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This is the point I'm trying to make. > > I'm able to reproduce this with exports that don't have "nohide". > > The mkdir used to return EEXIST, possibly before getting to the EACCES > > test. It appears to be a change in semantic behavior and I can't see > > where it is coming from. autofs expects an EEXIST but not an EACCES and > > so doesn't perform the mount. I could ignore the EACCES but that would > > be cheating. > > Here's something you can try: Look in fs/nfs/dir.c. Find nfs_lookup(). In > there, find the following lines: > > /* If we're doing an exclusive create, optimize away the lookup */ > if (nfs_is_exclusive_create(dir, nd)) > goto no_entry; > > Comment that bit out and see what the effect it. OK. But tomorrow. I'll let you know. Ian
