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Re: are mulivalued attributes really unordered?

To: John Woodell <woodie@worldpac.com>, openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: Re: are mulivalued attributes really unordered?
From: Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:14:06 -0800
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--On Friday, November 19, 2004 3:53 PM -0800 John Woodell <woodie@worldpac.com> wrote:

Are mulivalued attributes really unordered?
It seems that there always is an order.

The RFC defines no order, and you should never assume they will be ordered. However, they do seem to come back in the order they were written. That behavior could change without warning.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
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Stanford University
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References:
- ACL questsion about "by group"
  - From: Misty Stanley-Jones <misty@borkholder.com>
- Re: ACL questsion about "by group"
  - From: Dieter Kluenter <dieter@dkluenter.de>
- are mulivalued attributes really unordered?
  - From: John Woodell <woodie@worldpac.com>

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