Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 16:40 09 Dec 2002, Tom Georgoulias <tom.georgoulias@motorola.com> wrote:
| Is there any way to do enable the ability to browse the mount points | within an automount map, without having to cd into one of them?
Browseability is available on Solaris autofs. It doesn't create mount storms either. This feature may/may not show up in the v5 release:The autofs system doesn't supply this. Neither do some of the amd systems.
ponter:tomg$ more /usr/share/doc/autofs-3.1.7/TODO
<snip>
autofs v5 TODO list
-------------------
<snip>
* (Hopefully) some kind of inode spoofing to support browsable
directories.
"Tom, why do you want this?"Generally I have found that it is better to ask yourself _exactly_ why you want this facility (yes I know it'd be "nice"); there is usually a better or at least alternative way to get the information you want.
"Since it is the right way to deal with the problem at hand, I'd like the ability to browse directories mounted by automount."
Seriously, this feature is relied upon by my users and I'd like to set up my RHL system to behave in as similar a fashion as my other unix systems do. They've already complained quite a bit about it and I wanted to try and make it easier on them.
Tom
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