Re: (ITS#5343) cn=config crash when deleting attrs

[rhafer@suse.de]

On Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2008, rhafer@suse.de wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 30. Januar 2008, h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no wrote:
> > Ralf Haferkamp writes:
> > > There are multiple ways to fix this, I guess. I am not sure which
> > > one to take:
> > > 1. Make slap_mods_opattrs() create a LDAP_MOD_ADD operation, when
> > > the attributes don't exist in the entry.
> >
> > It'd be better to fix bconfig's LDAP_MOD_REPLACE.  That should work
> > like LDAP_MOD_ADD when the attribute is absent.  Haven't looked at
> > how easy that would(n't) be though.
> >
> > > 2. Do not try to modify the attributes (not even add) in
> > > slap_mods_opattrs() if they do not exist.
> >
> > No idea...
> >
> > I like the consistency it gives as far as it goes - keep the
> > presence of the attrs independent of whether they were created over
> > the protocol or with slapd -f -F.  Except fix #2 doesn't do that
> > since it won't know whether to add them when creating an entry.  So
> > in summary, no opinion:-)
>
> I am currently testing the 3rd approach, the attributes will be
> created even when starting with -f only. I'll commit it as soon as
> make test finishes.
Done. Please test.

-- 
Ralf