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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org, "Taylor,
	ForrestX" <forrestx.taylor@intel.com>,
	"Ruslan U. Zakirov" <cubic@wildgate.miee.ru>
Subject: Re: making the mountpoints visible all the time
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 10:09:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FB7BD66.3010502@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311170006200.12952-100000@raven.themaw.net>

Ian Kent wrote:
> 
> But how do you know what the keys are?
> 
> In order to make mount points visible you need to know what they are. The 
> definition of a program map is that it produces map entries as output 
> given an input key.
> 

You need a new operation on a map -- enumerate.  Most, but not all map 
types support it.

In the case of a program map I would suggest implementing enumeration by 
passing no argument and expecting the enumerated list back.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-16 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-13 17:52 making the mountpoints visible all the time Alexander Macdonald
2003-11-13 20:29 ` Taylor, ForrestX
2003-11-14  0:53   ` Todd Denniston
2003-11-14  3:04   ` Ian Kent
2003-11-14 12:13     ` Alexander Macdonald
2003-11-14 15:09       ` Ryan Go
2003-11-14 15:13       ` Greg Bradner
2003-11-14 18:54     ` Ruslan U. Zakirov
2003-11-16 16:12       ` Ian Kent
2003-11-16 18:09         ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-11-19  0:24     ` Taylor, ForrestX
2003-11-19  0:41       ` Ian Kent
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-14 14:48 Rigler, Steve
2003-11-14 20:19 ` Alexander Macdonald
2003-11-18 14:05 ` Ian Kent
2003-11-14 21:34 Rigler, Steve

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