H. Peter Anvin on Thu 13/01 09:53 -0800:
> > > It is the only topic of starting script becuse P.Alvin don't want
> > > to allow use of "+" in map (for reason of semantic).
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > 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.
What about when the maps are changed? You have to kill and restart
autofs so the startup script is run again? Since it's not built into the
automount map parsing code, this would have to be the case. In that
case the end result is still broken.
--
Scott
