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35 .Nd daemon handling autofs mount requests
38 .Op Fl D Ar name=value
47 daemon is responsible for handling
49 mount requests, parsing maps,
50 and mounting filesystems they specify.
53 forks into background and waits for kernel requests.
54 When a request is received,
56 forks a child process.
57 The child process parses the appropriate map and mounts filesystems accordingly.
58 Then it signals the kernel to release blocked processes that were waiting
60 .Bl -tag -width ".Fl v"
64 For indirect mounts, only create subdirectories if there are no wildcard
69 creates all the subdirectories it can.
70 Users may not realize that the wildcard map entry makes it possible to access
71 directories that have not yet been created.
73 Limit the number of forked
75 processes, and thus the number of mount requests being handled in parallel.
78 Debug mode: increase verbosity and do not daemonize.
80 Specify mount options.
81 Options specified here will be overridden by options entered in maps or
102 .An Edward Tomasz Napierala Aq Mt trasz@FreeBSD.org
103 under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation.