On 19/12/17 17:45, Patrick Goetz wrote: > On 12/19/2017 02:29 AM, Ian Kent wrote: >> A new amd mount type has been added. The amd mount type "program" >> has been added which allows a user provided program to be given >> in a map entry that will be used for performing the mount and >> optionally another program to be used at umount. >> > > What's a use case for this? It was requested and it is one of the standard amd mount types that hadn't been implemented. If nothing else it makes a slightly more complete amd map format implementation. I've seen a case where someone used a script to customize a mount command to suit different environments, where the mount command needed to be slightly different for different platforms. Probably not so useful to autofs but am-utils can run on a number of different OSes so the amd maps used by autofs (ideally unchanged from other arches) need to be able to cope with this. There's also the case where a mount needs to use a custom command to perform the mount (and possibly the umount at expire). Long ago this was requested for Sun format maps but I'm still not in a position to implement that (and it isn't part of the defined Sun format map syntax either). Ian
