Comment 4 for bug 306369

Hi Chuck, I am definitely not able write a patch in any sense.... I
can read the code but figuring out what to do to fix and test it in
the context of the whole program and OS is another issue entirely!

  -Mike

On Oct 13, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Chuck Short wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> Patches are always welcome.
>
> Thanks
> chuck
>
> ** Changed in: autofs (Ubuntu)
> Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
>
> --
> autofs cannot mount remote directory path with space
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306369
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>
> Status in “autofs” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: autofs
>
> System info:
> Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
> Release: 8.04
> autofs:
> Installed: 4.1.4+debian-2.1ubuntu1
> Candidate: 4.1.4+debian-2.1ubuntu1
> Version table:
> *** 4.1.4+debian-2.1ubuntu1 0
> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>
> Autofs fails to mount a remote file system if the remote path
> contains a space. On the remote NFS server, syslog reports that it
> can't stat exported dir and then prints the requested remote path
> ending at (before) the space. There is no way to use autofs to
> mount a remote directory containing a space through any combination
> of quoting or escaping. Using command-line "mount" command works
> fine when the remote path is quoted. Autofs calls the "mount"
> command for the actual mounting operation, so the problem is in
> autofs's preparation of the remote path argument to "mount".
>
> Cause: in autofs source file mount_nfs.c, in function
> get_best_mount(), remote path is copied until space or end of
> string. If the remote path contains a space, the string is
> terminated before the space. This shortened string is then passed
> to the "mount" program as the remote path to be mounted on the local
> mount point.
>
> To duplicate:
> 1) Export a file system on the remote system, and make a directory
> underneath the top level of the exported file system that contains a
> space. Example:
> remote% cat /etc/exports
> /export
>
> remote% mkdir "/export/data/path with space"
>
> 2) On the local system, set up an automount map that maps to the
> remote file system, and start autofs. Mount map example:
>
> local% cat /etc/auto.master
> /data /etc/auto.data defaults,intr
>
> local%cat /etc/auto.data
> * remote:/export/data/&
>
> 3) Attempt to access the local path:
> local% ls "/data/path with space"
> /bin/ls: cannot access /data/path with space: No such file or
> directory
>
> On the remote machine's syslog:
> Dec 8 16:25:24 remote nss_wins[801]: can't stat exported dir /
> export/data/path: No such file or directory
>