Hello, I've been doing some tests with AutoFS5 and I'd like to confirm that the behavior I'm seeing during the daemon initialization is expected or not.
The problem: when the autofs initscript returns, autofs is not really ready. Reading the code, I see that the automount daemon detaches itself from the controlling terminal (becoming a daemon) early in its initialization. After that, it starts other threads to handle different tasks and just then reads the available maps. Normally, reading the maps is quick, but it could take a bit more if using NIS or LDAP, what explains the delay between the initscript returning (immediately after daemonization) and autofs being really ready to proceed. I was thinking about some options to work around this problem (like deferring daemonization), but after a while, I couldn't find a clean and non-intrusive solution. Can you help me here? Thanks, Leonardo _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list autofs@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
