Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 11:00 -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>> 
>> The negative caching is done in userspace.  I'm not sure I understand
>> your question.
>
> Me neither but I'm working on the negative caching of non-existent map
> keys. Turns out to be a bit tricky when multiple nsswitch sources can be
> tried for each mount since the map may not exist within a given source
> and so we get NSS_STATUS_UNAVAIL instead of NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND. Maybe I
> should just cache the unavailable in the same way?

Ian, this is autofs version 4.  It's been a while since I implemented
the negative caching there, but I'd be interested in knowing if you
think I got it wrong for the case above!

Cheers,
Jeff

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