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