fstab vs autofs
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at eircom.net
Sat Nov 13 00:41:26 UTC 2010
Tim wrote:
>> Incidentally, the sample /etc/auto.master in Fedora-14
>> ends with the line
>> +auto.master
>> but I've been unable to find any explanation of this.
>
> See man auto.master
...
> Additionally, a map may be included from its source as if it were
> it- self present in the master map by including a line of the form:
> + [map- type,format:]map[options] and automount(8) will process the
> map accord- ing to the specification described below for map
> entries.
I read this to say that the line "+whatever"
just appends the file "whatever" to the auto.master file.
So I would expect "+auto.master" to start an infinite loop,
reading the file over and over again.
--
Timothy Murphy
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