On Thu, 2019-01-31 at 07:45 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > > > what about a special automounter option -ignore or -fstype=ignore: > > I'm not sure about these suggestions. > > I agree that using /dev/null offends the sensibility of the > map syntax and the idea of using either of these suggestions > is better from that POV. > > But the map entry parser has not been converted to use a yacc > based parser (mainly because the Sun map format is ambiguous > making that conversion rather difficult) so map entry parsing > remains somewhat spread throughout the code so map entry syntax > changes are a bit difficult and risky. > > Using an option like -ignore means special case handling of > the entry as it doesn't have mount location, only an option > and using a special fstype will cause unexpected and unusual > error messages for automount versions that don't have the > change. Although odd error messages in earlier versions is > probably going to happen anyway. There's also the problem that we don't know what affect adding new syntax would have for people with centrally managed maps that use multiple platforms. It might cause clients to reject the entire map or crash and burn in unpleasant ways. > > So I'm not sure about these. > Ian
