On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:52:54AM +0100, Per Hansen wrote:
> you should have a look at the german "man exports" (on sid).
> 
> You are right it is not on
> /usr/share/man/man5/exports.5.gz (nfs-kernel-server)
> but it is on
> /usr/share/man/de/man5/exports.5.gz (manpages-de)

Well, in that case, manpages-de is buggy.

> Btw. I think it does not matter if the manpage mentions this
> configuration option. It's in the source, so the english manpage should
> be updated.

It's not documented, since it's not supported. There is leftover code for it,
but that doesn't mean it's supported.

> And if you read the source you can see that the programmer wanted to
> support multiple ranges but made mistake while implementing it.

And then it was later ditched altogether. The fact that there's a parser for
something doesn't mean you can expect it to work. I expect the code will
simply get removed at some point.

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