Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> 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). As long as you don't rely on stat...mkdir working. That can go wrong if the dentry gets booted from the dcache by memory pressure in the "...". David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html