Re: Race condition when using slapo-unique?

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Magne Land wrote:
> Thank you for replying. Currently the man page of slapo-unique says
> "enforce uniqueness", which I find misleading. Would it be possible
> to change it to say "makes the best effort to enforce uniqueness" or
> something to that effect? Also, is there any way to enforce this
> especially for indexed attributes? I imagine you could lock the index
> file?

Well,

as soon as LDAP transactions <draft-zeilenga-ldap-txn> are in place, 
they could be used.  Even better, the internal API could be modified to 
take advantage of any database-specific transaction capabilities (which 
back-bdb & back-hdb have) to implement this type of operations in a 
transaction-safe manner.  I recall this being discussed in the near 
past, something good for OpenLDAP 3.0.

In the meanwhile, yes, you should file an ITS for a clarification in the 
documentation.

p.


Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
OpenLDAP Core Team

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