Re: backglue.c sometimes falsely returns LDAP_SIZELIMIT_EXCEEDED (ITS#2888)

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rhafer@suse.de wrote:
> Full_Name: Ralf Haferkamp
> Version: 2.1.25 (guess HEAD too)
> OS: SuSE Linux 9.0
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (212.95.107.74)
> 
> 
> I have a setup similar to this: 
> 
> database ldap
> uri "ldap://10.0.0.1/";
> subordinate
> suffix          "ou=people,dc=example,dc=com"
> 
> database        ldbm
> cachesize       3000
> directory       /var/lib/ldap
> lastmod         on
> mode            0600
> suffix          "dc=example,dc=com"
> 
> If I do the following in search:
> ldapsearch -x  uid=testuser -b "dc=example,dc=com" -z 1
> 
> The server returns one entry and the errorcode LDAP_SIZELIMIT_EXCEEDED. Even
> though the whole tree (the ldbm database and subordinate ldap database) contain
> only one entry which matches the filter. Search without "-z 1" also returns only
> this one entry and LDAP_SUCCESS (which is correct).

AFAIR this is the intended behavior, e.g. the server is informing
the client that the requested limit has been reached, even if no
more data would have been returned without the limit being enforced.

Whether this behavior is acceptable can be debated, of course.

p.

Dr. Pierangelo Masarati         mailto:pierangelo.masarati@sys-net.it
LDAP Architect, SysNet s.n.c.   http://www.sys-net.it

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