Scott McDermott wrote:
>
> Julien.Soula on Thu 13/01 17:02 +0100:
> > It is the only topic of starting script becuse P.Alvin don't want to
> > allow use of "+" in map (for reason of semantic).
>
> FWIW, I think this is ridiculous. This is widely in use at any shops
> running Suns and should be supported regardless of whether its design is
> flawed. This is supported by the automounters in SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX
> and Irix that I've seen, and I don't see why it shouldn't be supported
> in Linux based OSes as well.
>
> To reiterate, what is the objection to the "semantics" of the `+'
> anyways?
>
The problem is that it utterly breaks the key/value semantics of the
map. Now, that doesn't mean the startup script can't look into the file
for this stuff, but that's a job for the startup script.
-hpa
