Re: commit: ldap/servers/slapd config.c

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> Howard Chu writes:
> > I figured since this hadn't been documented yet I could change it
> > without repercussions. But it raises a question of consistency; we
> > have some options using hyphens, and some using underscores, and I
> > don't really see any rationale for which is chosen. Anyone have a
> > preference, and a reason?
>
> One fix is to translate '-' to '_' internally in slapd.conf option
> names, or to ignore both.

In the primary keywords (argv[0]) we can do this easily enough; we can just 
provide table entries for the valid alternate forms. For secondary keywords, I 
don't think there's an easy way to do it uniformly.

> Inconsistent with ldap.conf keywords though.

I don't see any pressing reason to change that.

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