Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 03:00:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: autofs@linux.kernel.org, kernel.org@goop.org
Subject: Announce: autofs-4.0.0pre7


Well, after much too long a delay, I finally have autofs-4.0.0pre7 ready.

The big change in this release is to the program map output syntax to be
compatable with Sun's multimount map syntax.  The upshot is you have to
update your /etc/auto.net script, but you'll also be able to get
multimounts from an NIS map.

I also went over my past autofs mail and incorporated any reasonable
looking fixes and patches; please check to see if yours is there, and
ping me if I missed something.

Please test this out and make sure it does what you expect.

Available from
   ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/testing-v4/
             ^^ change as appropriate

Other changes:
* Hide all evidence of failed mounts
* Major rework of multimounting.  parse_sun module now does all the
  work.  This change means the output syntax of program maps has
  changed; see samples/auto.net for the new syntax.
* parse_sun accepts '\' to quote spaces in the value part of the map
* Fix to lookup_multi from Darrel Hankerson <hankedr@dms.auburn.edu>

        J