On 08/19/2013 03:11 AM, Ian Kent wrote: > There are patches from several contributors I plan on committing > so I thought posting them to the list for final review would be > sensible. I am wondering about my auto.smb patch (see http://www.spinics.net/lists/autofs/msg00402.html). Back then, you said > > All I'm really saying is that, the program map returns a string that is > then used as the map entry, so when it is parsed the variables $UID, > $GID, etc. will be present in the macro lookup table as ${UID} (and $UID > etc. works) ... so maybe these same variables should be provided in the > environment of the program. > > It isn't entirely clear if that is needed since those macro values may > be returned in the map entry text with things like echo "/some/string > \ ... ${UID} ..." etc. for later translation. > > Really, a revised patch depends on this question being answered first. Nobody has spoken up on this list saying that additional environment variables would need to be set. I am wondering what else needs to be done in order to merge this (IMO very useful) functionality. Martin -- Dr. Martin Wilck PRIMERGY System Software Engineer x86 Server Engineering FUJITSU Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 33106 Paderborn, Germany Phone: ++49 5251 525 2796 Fax: ++49 5251 525 2820 Email: martin.wilck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Internet: http://ts.fujitsu.com Company Details: http://ts.fujitsu.com/imprint -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
