Re: ldbmcat output not in index order (ITS#174)

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

Jochen,

On second thought, I don't think this is a bug.

The test should be:

./ldbmsort.pl --create > initial.ldif
ldif2ldbm -i initial.ldif
ldbmcat /var/ldap-db > db.ldif
rm -f /var/ldap-db/*
ldif2ldbm -i db.ldif
ldbmcat /var/ldap-db > verify.ldif
cmp db.ldif verify.ldif

That is, even though the entry are provided out of
order each does have it's correct index.

Kurt


At 06:37 AM 5/25/99 GMT, joe@ispsoft.de wrote:
>Full_Name: Jochen Wiedmann
>Version: 1.2.1
>OS: Linux 2.2.5 (Red Hat 6.0)
>URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ldbmsort.pl
>Submission from: (NULL) (195.143.94.56)
>
>
>
>When exporting an LDBM database of more than 255 objects, the object order is
>not 1, 2, 3, ... as expected, but 256, 1, 257, 2, 258, 3, ...
>
>Problem is, that the database becomes corrupt when reimporting this file via
>ldif2ldbm.
>
>To show the problem, I have uploaded a small Perl script (ldbmsort.pl) to the
>OpenLDAP incoming directory, that creates a tree of 400 objects:
>
>	# Run "ldbmsort" for the first time and let it create an LDIF tree
>	[root@gate joe]# ./ldbmsort.pl --create >/tmp/myldif
>
>	# Import this tree
>	[root@gate joe]# /usr/sbin/ldif2ldbm -i /tmp/myldif
>
>	# Export it with ldbmcat and compare it to the original.
>	# cmp shows immediate differences (object number not 1)
>	[root@gate joe]# /usr/sbin/ldbmcat /var/ldap/id2entry.dbb | cmp - /tmp/myldif 
>	- /tmp/myldif differ: char 1, line 1
>	Broken pipe
>
>	# Export again, but this time use ldbmsort again for sorting
>	# the entries: Cmp shows no differences
>	[root@gate joe]# /usr/sbin/ldbmcat /var/ldap/id2entry.dbb | ./ldbmsort.pl | cmp
>- /tmp/myldif 
>
>
>