On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 18:21 +0200, Matthias Koenig wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we noticed a problem concerning loop mounts on locations that 
> have to be mounted before. E.g. consider the following situation,
> a NFS server exporting a cd image, which we want to loop mount
> locally to get access to the content:
> 
> auto.master:
> /cdimage        auto.cdimage
> /cdcontent      auto.cdcontent
> 
> auto.cdimage:
> foo             nfsserver:/cdimage/foo.img
> 
> auto.cdcontent:
> foo             -fstype=auto,loop       :/cdimage/foo/foo.img
> 
> The access to /cdcontent/foo will fail, when /cdimage/foo is not 
> mounted before, because spawn_mount does not use SPAWN_OPT_ACCESS
> in this case.
> The patch below fixes this problem.

I can't remember now.
I wonder why I don't always call access?
I must have had a reason, let me think about it for a while.

Thanks for the patch.
Ian


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