Re: auto_ -> auto. in init script

[H. Peter Anvin]

Peter Bunclark wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >
> > Because Sun specs that an underscore "may" be interpreted as a dot when
> > relating to the auto_master map (apparently implying both should be
> > tested.)
> >
> > The Sun auto_master file is so broken.  I wish it didn't exist :(
> >
> >       -hpa
> >
> Do you mean `broken' as in buggy, or `broken' as in you don't like the
> specification?  Autofs/NIS/NIS+ is practically totally reliable in a
> Solaris environment.
>         Where is that reference to `underscore may be ... dot' - I don't
> recall coming across it before?
> 

Broken as in the specification is silly.  There really ought to be a
specificiation that includes map type, for example.

        -hpa