On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 15:01 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > > autofs v4 doesn't rely on mkdir never returning EACCESS just that it > > return EEXIST if the directory exists. Never the less if the behavior of > > stat will work in this case I'll change v4 to do it the way you suggest > > (as v5 does already). > > Aaah. Wrong again! > > Although v5 doesn't attempt to mount an NFS export if the directory > doesn't exist it does end up doing a mkdir later as the most common case > is mounting an NFS export within an autofs filesystem or other, usually > local filesystem. Then make sure that it only does this within the autofs filesystem. The value of f_type as returned by statfs() should be able to tell you if this is the case.
