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

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