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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with autofs 3.1.7 -> 4.1.0-beta2
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 01:14:54 -0800
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To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
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Ian Kent wrote:
> 
> This looks like a NIS map. Shouldn't the / be a * in this case and 
> shouldn't the wildcard map entry come last. I thouht that the defined 
> behaviour of the wildcard map entry was that once it is encountered map 
> processing stops.
> 

Nope... especially not for non-file maps where there really is no such 
thing as "order"...

	-hpa