linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix design error.

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Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:42:55 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, mjt@....msk.ru,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, autofs@...r.kernel.org,
	raven@...maw.net, thomas@...3r.de, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix
 design error.

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:43 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
>
> Why not just use the already existing SOCK_SEQPACKET sockets?

Have you looked at the interface?

The file descriptor is created in user space, and is defined to be a
pipe. So both automount and systemd create a pipe, and then pass that
pipe fd to the mount system call.

So it is not autofs that creates the file descriptor for the user.
It's the other way around: the user creates (using "pipe()") the file
descriptor, and passes it to autofs.

                        Linus
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