> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Frithjof Anders wrote:
> >
> > Thus spoke H. Peter Anvin on 22-Feb-99 :
> > >
> > > Basically, in autofs v3 there is no way of taking control over an
> > > abandoned automount, and I haven't been planning on that kind of
> > > support for autofs v4 either; it is really hard to do and I see very
> > > little benefit to it.
> >
> > I disagree that this feature has "little benefit". Imagine, you want to
> > move a user from one partition to another. That happens sometimes if you
> > are a sysadmin. Changing NIS maps will not solve the problem.
> > Yep, then you end up rebooting the machines or tell the user, he/she can only
> > log onto machines, which have been not used by him/her.
>
> I have to agree with Frithjof. I have had other reasons for restarting
> autofs as well (upgrading autofs for one), and it is a pain to make sure
> that nobody on the machine is currently using an autofs-controlled
> directory.
>
> I understand if you don't wish to code it yourself for v4, but I would
> like to convince you that such a feature would be very beneficial.
Let me rephrase: it is not worth the *large* amount of overhead that
it would cause. It is somewhat like asking that you should be able to
cut your head off and put it on your next-door neighbour; in between
you have real problems...
-hpa
