On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Rich McClellan wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to have autofs show a listing of mount points even if they
> > have not been mounted? I realize that it might tax the automounter to
> > mount every point when someone does an `ls /net` or `ls /home`, but the
> > users here are going nuts trying to find there way around blindly.
>
> No, it's not. It's on the planned feature list for autofs v5.
Is it? I asked about this months ago and got the impression that it
wasn't ever going to be possible. Something like, autofs doesn't know
it needs to mount a directory until the user tries to chdir into one
that doesn't exist.
How would such a list handle directory permissions when listing
directories that aren't mounted? Use "last known permissions"?
Config-file specified permissions?
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Roy Stogner
