On Fri, 2020-01-31 at 13:34 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > On Fri, 2020-01-31 at 01:09 +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 11:50:32PM +0000, Mike Gabriel < > > sunwea...@debian.org> wrote: > > > This seems like something to be discussed upstream. I Cc:ed Ian > > > Kent, maybe > > > he has some 2? to add. > > > > Cool! > > > > In the meantime, I digged a bit more, and it seems that it is > > because > > with > > misc-device support, autofs uses the AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_ISMOUNTPOINT > > ioctl > > to check whether something is a mountpoint, which returns 1, which > > causes > > the code in umount_multi to decude it cannot be symlink and > > unmounting it. > > > > Indeed, rm /dev/autofs before starting autofs makes it partially > > work > > (the > > target dir is not unmounted, but the entry is still gone without > > ghosting). > > > > Upstream probably already knows this, of course. > > Upstream doesn't know about this, ;) > > The behaviour is not correct and needs to be fixed. > > Sounds like I have enough information to duplicate the problem so > I'll have a look see.
Oh, as usual, what's the autofs source version of your package please, since I'll be using the current development source to work on it. > > Thanks for the report > Ian
