autofs bug fix update

An updated autofs package that fixes two bugs is now available.

The autofs utility controls the operation of the automount daemon. The
automount daemon automatically mounts file systems when you use them, and
unmounts them when they are not busy.

This updated package fixes the following two autofs bugs:

* autofs was incorrectly using a non-thread-safe libxml2 function as though
it was thread-safe. This sometimes resulted in autofs crashing. With this
update the calls to xmlCleanupParser() and xmlInitParser() have been moved:
these functions are now only called as autofs starts and exits, ensuring
these libxml2 functions are not called more than once while autofs is
running. (BZ#523188)

* a recent correction related to autofs master map entry updating
introduced a regression whereby it was possible to deadlock when requesting
a map re-load when an entry in a direct map had been removed. This update
adds a check that ensures such map re-load requests do not cause a
deadlock. (BZ#525431)

All autofs users should install this updated package which addresses these
issues.

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

523188 - [RHEL 5] autofs segfault on RHEL5.3 (xmlCleanupParser not reentrant)
525431 - RHEL 5.5 RFE - autofs add configuration option to increase max open files and max stack size