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From: martin@bi-link.owl.de (Martin Husemann)
Subject: Re: mountd and subdirs
References: <1891@dcsc.dla.mil> <2605o1$lmn@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
Organization: IN - individual network, Ostwestfalen-Lippe, FRG
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 22:57:33 GMT
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kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes:

>This is the way it works. You got to specify each mount point
>allowed for mounting explicitly. (It's not a bug - it's a feature :-)

As this is not possible, this is obviously a bug. Compared to any other
existing implementation I know of it is a bug as well. According to
Hal Stern's "Managing NIS and NFS" it is a bug.


Martin
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