==> Regarding RE: [autofs] getting parameters to executable maps; Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds:
raven> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, aptosca wrote: >> I have a network service that defines a filesystem namespace. I'd like >> to write an executable map that uses that service to return map entries >> to automount. Abstractly, the executable map takes the namespace path, >> queries the web service, and returns a map entry to automount. The map >> entry is either a pointer to a real filesystem or an -fstype=autofs >> entry that causes the executable map to be executed again when/if an >> entry in the directory is touched. raven> I've thought about this and I can't think of any easy way to achieve raven> this. raven> I don't like the idea of changing the internals of the way program raven> maps are called. raven> One way to do this would be to write an autofs lookup module to raven> handle this map source rather than use a program map. Is there any way we could achieve this via setting some environment variables? -Jeff _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
