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Re: (ITS#6628) Connection numbering starts at 1000



> --On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 5:47 PM -0700 Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
> wrote:
>
>> quanah@zimbra.com wrote:
>>> Full_Name: Quanah Gibson-Mount
>>> Version: 2.4.23
>>> OS: Linux 2.6
>>> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
>>> Submission from: (NULL) (75.111.45.108)
>>>
>>>
>>> With OpenLDAP 2.4.23, new connections start numbered at 1000 instead of
>>> at 1
>>
>> No. cvs log shows that this was patched about a year ago and first
>> released in 2.4.20. Not a bug, closing this ITS.
>
> Connections starting at 1000 is clearly a bug, regardless of when it was
> introduced.

That was intended, to store connections as unsigned and reserve lower
numbers for special connections (e.g. internal operations and so).  I
don't see how using an arbitrary offset in logs can be considered a bug. 
1000 is much like 10, 1024, 666 or 0xbad.

p.