Re: (ITS#5028) incomplete slapcat docs

[ghenry@suretecsystems.com]

<quote who="h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no">
> hyc@symas.com writes:
>> steve@stevenwills.com wrote:
>>> The slapcat man page says in the Limitations section:
>>>
>>>        In general, your slapd(8) should not be running (at least, not
>>> in
>>> read-write mode) when you do this to ensure consistency of the
>>> database.
>>> (...)
>> Given that back-ldbm has been deleted for 2.4, I guess we can just
>> delete this sentence.
>
> It could produce garbage data with back-ldif, and with some foreign
> database module.  I think it should say it's safe with bdb (and null).
> Could copy it to the slapd-bdb(5) too.  (I don't suggest to make
> slapcat(8) refer the user to that, since there is only one example
> anyway.)

Obviously hdb too. Would it produce garbage on 2.4?

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> Regards,
> Hallvard
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