Peter Bunclark wrote:
> >
> > Of course. Let's connect into YET ANOTHER completely unrelated API.
> > Sorry, no way. That is just too idiotic.
> >
> > -hpa
> >
> You're being rather extreme. nsswitch.conf is the established way in
> which subsystems which require access to name services can be configured
> centrally depending on the name services in use on on a particular
> client. On a fully integrated version of unix, you can migrate a client
> from standalone (perhaps newly installed for example) to perhaps nis, and
> be sure of `catching' any subsystem requiring to be told which name
> services to refer to and in which order.
> In Linux, autofs is something of the odd man out in this respect.
>
It is because it doesn't make any sense whatsoever for this case. It
isn't a single namespace we're talking about ... it should be able to
access maps *ACROSS* namespaces. The Sun fiction that there is only one
namespace for the automounters is the problem -- plus the various
syntaxes they used, all of which are hideously poor.
-hpa
