Re: collective attributes (the hard way)

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Brett @Google wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 4:32 AM, Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com
> <mailto:hyc@symas.com>> wrote:
>
>     But the more general problem - yes, there needs to be a piece of
>     code that keeps a list of (objectclass=subentry) and applies the
>     relevant behaviors to each. Doing this correctly would introduce a
>     quite different administrative model to the server, and would
>     require quite a lot of architectural changes.
>
>
> Overlays are single threaded, but can they themselves have private
> worker threads? I guess that this would depend how much the worker
> thread could do without using the overlay's (single threaded) callbacks
> / resources etc., and it would need to update the meta data in paralel
> so as to not block use of the meta information by the overlay proper
> (and lock access to pointers which might change when the metadata is
> updated).

Overlays are not single-threaded, so the rest of this question is moot.

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