This is a very old bug but I can see how even in impish the man page
docs could be a bit confusing:
-t <seconds>, --timeout <seconds>
Set the global minimum timeout, in seconds, until directories are
unmounted. The default is
10 minutes. Setting the timeout to zero disables umounts
completely. The internal program
default is 10 minutes, but the default installed configuration
overrides this and sets the
timeout to 5 minutes to be consistent with earlier autofs
releases.
The issue being that what's (correctly) described in the man page isn't
what's implied by the option name '--timeout'. However, given how long
that option has been available in practice, renaming the option is
probably not feasible at this point. And, if it should be renamed, that
is better discussed and performed upstream and not diverge from standard
practice.
** Changed in: autofs (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
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autofs better document timeout option
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