Viktor Dukhovni:
> > If all feature of Postfix can be represented as a list of name=value
> > pairs, for example:
> >
> > feature context | name = value
> > ====================|=====================
> > main.cf | parameter = value
> > master.cf field | service/type/field = value
> > master.cf -o override | service/type/parameter = value
>
> The down-side here is that software parsing the output may need to
> implement a list of "reserved names" that distinguish parameter
> names from "private", "unpriv", "chroot", "wakeup" and "maxproc".
Please do not ignore the left side of the table! Currently, feature
context is indicated with -M, -F and -P, respectively. Instead we
Could make names fully-qualified (within the same Postfix instance)
by adding an extra field to the pathname,
But before I go there I want to find the article that inspired this
development.
Wietse