Re: [PATCH] autofs4 symlink size

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
24 Oct 2001 13:24:10 -0700

Followup to: <20011024102050.A12112@sigint.cs.purdue.edu>
By author: linux@sigint.cs.purdue.edu
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 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.)
>

That's IMNSHO a bug in the Almquist shell, at least if autofs4 returns
zero, but it's also a bug in autofs4.

-hpa

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