On 28 Dec, ramana wrote:

> Here is the bug in autofs3 module which causing so much pain. It simply 
> stopped me from adding much more interesting features to Autodir 
> http://www.intraperson.com/autodir/
[snip]
> Because of this, user space test program reporting like this:
> 
> fail : /test/t944 : No such file or directory
> fail : /test/t4187 : No such file or directory

Hmm.. I wonder if this might be related to a weirdness we're seeing. Running
autofs-4.1.3 with previous latest patch to kernel (pre-2005 release) and users
use LSF to submit batch jobs to hosts.  On linux hosts, user level programs
will sometimes exit quickly with a "file does not exist" error, even though you
can login to the host and see the file/dir just fine.  As a hacked
work-around, we have a pre-exec script that tries to stat all the directories
they need to force the mounts to happen before their program touches the
files.

I didn't see any attempts to patch this bit.. did you have any ideas on how to
patch that particular piece of code?   Or just comment it out?

-- 
Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com
Groundskeeper Willie: "oooh.. Me mule wouldn't walk in the mud.  So I had to 
put 17 bullets in 'em." ==> Simpsons

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