[PATCH] autofs4 symlink size

linux@sigint.cs.purdue.edu
Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:20:50 -0500


I sent this to the autofs4 maintainer a while ago, but never heard back.
autofs4 doesn't return a size for the symlinks it creates, which is
inconsistent with other filesystems. (The Almquist shell uses the sizes
of path components to allocate buffers during a walk, so it can't traverse
autofs4-linked paths.)

This patch applies against 2.4.9 (and probably earlier) through 2.4.13.

--- fs/autofs4/inode.c.orig Fri Feb 9 14:29:44 2001
+++ fs/autofs4/inode.c Thu Aug 23 16:01:59 2001
@@ -315,8 +315,10 @@
inode->i_nlink = 2;
inode->i_op = &autofs4_dir_inode_operations;
inode->i_fop = &autofs4_dir_operations;
- } else if (S_ISLNK(inf->mode))
+ } else if (S_ISLNK(inf->mode)) {
+ inode->i_size = inf->size;
inode->i_op = &autofs4_symlink_inode_operations;
+ }

return inode;
}
-
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