Charles-François Natali <[email protected]> added the comment:
> I see no evidence that this is a bug in Linux,
"""
stat("/net/prodigy", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
mkdir("/net/prodigy/tmp", 0777) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
"""
As you can see, a stat() is already done on /net/prodigy.
Event if it wasn't done, calling mkdir() ought to trigger the mount.
So this is *definitely* as bug in autofs.
> and I think it's ridiculous to close it when a trivial one-line fix is
> available.
Which one-line fix do you propose?
> I won't reopen it because it's obvious no one wants to address this. :(
It's not that we don't want to address this, but rather that we want
to avoid introducing hacks to work around OS bugs.
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