Scott McDermott wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Fundamentally, this is the very problem with this incredibly broken
hack.
-hpa
