On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 22:37 -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote: > Hi, Ian, list, (again, sorry if this is a dup) > > Here is an implementation of included map support for autofs v4. This > supports included maps in both the master map, and regular direct or > indirect file maps. > > Because I dread writing bash code, I implemented the included map > checking for the master map in C. We basically just call into the > daemon with a bogus mount point, asking for it to dump out all of the > maps. This works well for 2 reasons: 1) it's not bash, and 2) it > re-uses the code that the daemon will use to read the included maps > anyway. > > Review would be greatly appreciated. I tested this in my environment > by creating a number of included maps, and modifying > /etc/nsswitch.conf to ensure that it works as expected for file and > NIS maps.
I've only looked briefly at this but I get the impression that it will allow "+" map inclusion from other than file maps. Is that right? If that is the case we need to explicitly ignore "+" map entries in map sources other than file maps as it's not legal or at least for consistency. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
