[PATCH] do not stat autofs mounts(was Re: hall and autofs)

[Ian Kent]

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 19:52 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Friday 19 May 2006 19:13, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 11:51 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > > On Thursday 18 May 2006 00:55, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> > > > Thanks for the eyes.  I also noticed I used sizeof instead of strlen in
> > > > strncmp.  Patch take 3.
> > >
> > > There is a (maybe a minor, maybe more) problem with this patch: You don't
> > > know now the mount state of your internal device/partition/volume, if it
> > > is mounted via autofs. I'm not sure if we maybe get problems with the
> > > mount/unmount/eject helper here if we don't know the correct state.
> >
> > Not exactly sure what you're saying here?
> 
> If you ignore all autofs mounted devices (while detect the mount state), you 
> can't detect the mount state of internal hd, fd, cd/dvd-drives, usbstick ... 
> what ever, if they are mounted with autofs.
> 
> HAL never know the state of this devices (hal set they IMO false for 
> is_mounted). This results in two possible problems: wrong mount state 
> provided in HAL and confused mount helper (maybe multiple mounting, maybe 
> some other problems).

If the user chooses to have these devices managed by autofs instead of
HAL perhaps HAL doesn't need to report status.

Ian