Re: bug with automount-dir-prefix handling in abbreviate-file-name

[Stefan Monnier]

> I suspect that automount-dir-prefix was meant to address some other
> problem that possibly manifested only in older automounters, but I've
> been unable to find evidence to back this up.  Can you explain more
> explicitly what that behavior was and what the variable is actually
> meant to do?

automount-dir-prefix was designed for automounters that didn't benefit
from as good kernel suppport as is available nowadays, so in order to
automount /foo/bar, they mounted it onto /tmp_mnt/foo/bar and then made
/foo/bar a symlink to it.


        Stefan