Bug 527375

Summary:	Read and write size of startup status report buffer is incorrect
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Ian Kent <ikent>
Component:	autofs5	Assignee:	Ian Kent <ikent>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	yanfu,wang <yanwang>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	4.8	CC:	fnadge, ikent, jmoyer, yanwang
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	autofs5-5.0.1-0.rc2.110	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Previously, autofs the calculated pipe read size incorrectly. As a result, the init script did not always report success even when the service started successfully. Now, the buffer size is calculated correctly.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	487656	Environment:
Last Closed:	2011-02-16 14:21:23 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	487656
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Comment 2 yanfu,wang 2010-12-21 03:31:05 UTC

verified autofs-5.0.1-start-pipe-buff-size.patch applies cleanly during the build, and there are a lot of RHTS tests that start and stop autofs often
and almost always check the return status, no regression found as per the regression results.

Comment 3 Florian Nadge 2011-01-03 16:27:40 UTC

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    New Contents:
Previously, autofs the calculated pipe read size incorrectly. As a result, the init script did not always report success even when the service started successfully. Now, the buffer size is calculated correctly.

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2011-02-16 14:21:23 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0241.html