From 92cb8427c537f37edd43c5cef1909585201372ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 23:29:20 +0000 Subject: stat: only automount with --cached=never Revert to the default behavior before the introduction of statx(). * src/stat.c (do_stat): Set AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT without --cached=never. * doc/coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Mention the automount behavior with --cached=never. * NEWS: Mention the change in behavior. Fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/54287 --- NEWS | 4 ++++ doc/coreutils.texi | 1 + src/stat.c | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a3442c5dd..fe66f496f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ls no longer tries to automount files, reverting to the behavior before the statx() call was introduced in coreutils-8.32. + stat no longer tries to automount files by default, reverting to the + behavior before the statx() call was introduced in coreutils-8.32. + Only `stat --cached=never` will continue to automount files. + timeout --foreground --kill-after=... will now exit with status 137 if the kill signal was sent, which is consistent with the behavior when the --foreground option is not specified. This allows users to diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index e9be0993a..05dc5ee21 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -12608,6 +12608,7 @@ Always read the already cached attributes if available. @item never Always sychronize with the latest file system attributes. +This also mounts automounted files. @item default Leave the caching behavior to the underlying file system. diff --git a/src/stat.c b/src/stat.c index edafd0285..3765a8f65 100644 --- a/src/stat.c +++ b/src/stat.c @@ -1394,6 +1394,9 @@ do_stat (char const *filename, char const *format, char const *format2) else if (force_sync) flags |= AT_STATX_FORCE_SYNC; + if (! force_sync) + flags |= AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT; + fd = statx (fd, pathname, flags, format_to_mask (format), &stx); if (fd < 0) { -- cgit v1.2.1