On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 11:27 -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 11:00 -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> >> 
> >> The negative caching is done in userspace.  I'm not sure I understand
> >> your question.
> >
> > Me neither but I'm working on the negative caching of non-existent map
> > keys. Turns out to be a bit tricky when multiple nsswitch sources can be
> > tried for each mount since the map may not exist within a given source
> > and so we get NSS_STATUS_UNAVAIL instead of NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND. Maybe I
> > should just cache the unavailable in the same way?
> 
> Ian, this is autofs version 4.  It's been a while since I implemented
> the negative caching there, but I'd be interested in knowing if you
> think I got it wrong for the case above!

Oh, yeah, lucky it will be Xmas holiday time soon.
I'm going to have a look around the v4 code tomorrow.
I'll spend some time on this as well.

> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff

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