Re: auto_ -> auto. in init script

[Peter Bunclark]

On 7 Mar 2000, Camm Maguire wrote:

> > > Handling + in auto_master would be nice.  The + as an entry in a map
> > > is utterly and fundamentally broken (a map is an associative lookup,
> > > d**** it!)
> > 
> 
> Handling included maps would indeed be a useful kludge.  But one
> requiring significant effort, it seems.  How about just for now using

Isn't it really the case that a text file is not a map, it is one of the 
sources for a map.  The actual automounter map is the parsed concatenation
of all input sources, with `+' being a directive to tell the parser
how to proceed during the input processs?

In our Solaris cluster, we make a lot of use of being able to tweak, or
override, bits of the global NIS+ maps with little local /etc/ maps; it's
a powerful function.

Pete.