Re: (ITS#3979) glue mixtures can confuse slapadd

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> Howard Chu writes:
>   
> > Yes. Although "async" is still unimplemented, and I'm wondering if it
> > is useful in its present definition. Given the need to enforce
> > sizelimits, I don't think it's desirable to immediately fan out a
> > search across all the subordinates. The search must be
> > deterministically sequenced (top-down, breadth-first, whatever) so
> > that two identical search requests with the same sizelimit return the
> > identical result set, otherwise I think we'd break the data model.
> >     
>
> I don't think so, though I haven't dug deeply.  All I know is that "The
> SearchResultEntry and SearchResultReference PDUs may come in any order".
> (RFC 2251 section 4.5.2.)
>   

Certainly there is no prescribed order, but we assume that a given 
implementation always uses the same order. Otherwise most of our test 
comparisons in the test suite are broken, and features like PagedResults 
cannot be implemented.

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