On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Ian Kent wrote:
> >
> > But how do you know what the keys are?
> >
> > In order to make mount points visible you need to know what they are. The
> > definition of a program map is that it produces map entries as output
> > given an input key.
> >
>
> You need a new operation on a map -- enumerate.  Most, but not all map
> types support it.
>
> In the case of a program map I would suggest implementing enumeration by
> passing no argument and expecting the enumerated list back.
>

That sounds good a good idea for inclusion in 4.1.1 (I have quite a list
already).

Move the decision on what the map contains to the program map implementer.
That would be fairly straight forward to implement given that I have a
placeholder function in each map module.

Ian

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