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From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH]autofs4: hang and proposed fix
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 00:27:18 +0800 (WST)
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On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Ian Kent wrote:

> 
> If a call such as sys_mkdir (perhaps in lookup_create) was able to 
> determine the directory exists before taking the semaphore the problem we 
> have here goes away.

Sorry, that's rubbish, ignore it.

Ian