Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:32 +0200, Matthias Koenig wrote:
>> Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 
>> > 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.
>> 
>> Yes, I first tried to set SPAWN_OPT_ACCESS as default, but this did
>> not work and had the negative effect, that NFS mounts could not
>> be mounted anymore, because an access() has been done on the
>> NFS location description "nfsserver:/cdimage", which then fails.
>
> Of course, I'll go with you're patch.

Are you sure the argument positions will be the same for all of the
mount modules?  Is this really the best way to fix this?

-Jeff

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