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From: Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@ts.fujitsu.com>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: autofs mailing list <autofs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Gordon Lack <gordon.m.lack@gsk.com>,
	"Lan Yixun (dlan)" <dennis.yxun@gmail.com>,
	Leonardo Chiquitto <leonardo.lists@gmail.com>,
	Dustin Polke <DuPol@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] Current autofs patch queue
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 12:34:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <522469BD.1030709@ts.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130819010909.6472.32512.stgit@perseus.fritz.box>

On 08/19/2013 03:11 AM, Ian Kent wrote:
> There are patches from several contributors I plan on committing
> so I thought posting them to the list for final review would be
> sensible.

I am wondering about my auto.smb patch (see
http://www.spinics.net/lists/autofs/msg00402.html). Back then, you said

> 
> All I'm really saying is that, the program map returns a string that is
> then used as the map entry, so when it is parsed the variables $UID,
> $GID, etc. will be present in the macro lookup table as ${UID} (and $UID
> etc. works) ... so maybe these same variables should be provided in the
> environment of the program.
> 
> It isn't entirely clear if that is needed since those macro values may
> be returned in the map entry text with things like echo "/some/string
> \ ... ${UID} ..." etc. for later translation.
> 
> Really, a revised patch depends on this question being answered first. 

Nobody has spoken up on this list saying that additional environment
variables would need to be set. I am wondering what else needs to be
done in order to merge this (IMO very useful) functionality.

Martin

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-02 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-19  1:11 [PATCH 00/25] Current autofs patch queue Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:11 ` [PATCH 01/25] autofs-5.0.7 - don't override LDFLAGS in make rules Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:12 ` [PATCH 02/25] autofs-5.0.7 - fix a couple of compiler warnings Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:12 ` [PATCH 03/25] autofs-5.0.7 - add after sssd dependency to unit file Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:12 ` [PATCH 04/25] autofs-5.0.7 - dont start readmap unless ready Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:12 ` [PATCH 05/25] autofs-5.0.7 - fix crash due to thread unsafe use of libldap Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:12 ` [PATCH 06/25] autofs-5.0.7 - fix compile error with heimdal support enabled Ian Kent
2013-08-20  3:36   ` Dennis Lan (dlan)
2013-08-20  7:34     ` Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:12 ` [PATCH 07/25] autofs-5.0.7 - fix typo forced-shutdown should be force-shutdown Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:12 ` [PATCH 08/25] autofs-5.0.7 - fix hesiod check error and use correct $(LIBS) setting Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:12 ` [PATCH 09/25] autofs-5.0.7 - fix dead LDAP symbolic link when LDAP support is disabled Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:13 ` [PATCH 10/25] autofs-5.0.7 - add missing libtirpc lib to mount_nfs.so when TIRPC enabled Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:13 ` [PATCH 11/25] autofs-5.0.7 - use compiler determined by configure instead of hard-coded ones Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:13 ` [PATCH 12/25] autofs-5.0.7 - remove hard-coded STRIP variable Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:13 ` [PATCH 13/25] autofs-5.0.7 - use LIBS for link libraries Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:13 ` [PATCH 14/25] autofs-5.0.7 - unbundle NOTSTRIP from DEBUG so they dont depend on each other Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:13 ` [PATCH 15/25] autofs-5.0.7 - fix occasional build error when enable parallel compiling Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:13 ` [PATCH 16/25] autofs-5.0.7 - fix compilation of lookup_ldap.c without sasl Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:13 ` [PATCH 17/25] autofs-5.0.7 - fix dumpmaps multi output Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:13 ` [PATCH 18/25] autofs-5.0.7 - try and cleanup after dumpmaps Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:14 ` [PATCH 19/25] autofs-5.0.7 - teach dumpmaps to output simple key value pairs Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:14 ` [PATCH 20/25] autofs-5.0.7 - fix syncronize handle_mounts() shutdown Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:14 ` [PATCH 21/25] autofs-5.0.7 - fix fix wildcard multi map regression Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:14 ` [PATCH 22/25] autofs-5.0.7 - improve timeout option description Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:14 ` [PATCH 23/25] autofs-5.0.7 - only probe specific nfs version when requested Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:14 ` [PATCH 24/25] autofs-5.0.7 - fix bad mkdir permission on create Ian Kent
2013-08-19  2:13   ` Ian Kent
2013-08-19  1:14 ` [PATCH 25/25] autofs-5.0.7 - setup program map env from macro table Ian Kent
2013-08-19  5:30 ` [PATCH 00/25] Current autofs patch queue Dennis Lan (dlan)
2013-08-20  2:55   ` Ian Kent
2013-08-20  4:52     ` Dennis Lan (dlan)
2013-09-02 10:34 ` Martin Wilck [this message]
2013-09-02 10:41   ` Gordon Lack
2013-09-02 11:04     ` Martin Wilck
2013-09-02 11:13       ` Gordon Lack
2013-09-02 12:17         ` Martin Wilck
2013-09-02 12:55           ` Gordon Lack
2013-09-02 13:15             ` Martin Wilck
2013-09-02 13:41               ` Gordon Lack
2013-09-02 14:11                 ` Martin Wilck
2013-09-02 14:20                   ` Gordon Lack
2013-09-02 14:49                     ` Martin Wilck
2013-09-02 15:08                       ` Gordon Lack
2013-09-02 15:23                         ` Martin Wilck
2013-09-02 15:36                           ` Gordon Lack
2013-09-06  8:11   ` Ian Kent

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