Full_Name: Ondrej Kuznik Version: master OS: URL: https://github.com/mistotebe/openldap/tree/ITS8859 Submission from: (NULL) (82.10.24.68) In order to support the load balancer within the slapd process and integrate correctly, we declare it to be a backend as that is the best match - allows us to register all the callbacks that a subsystem like this needs. The only problem is that slapd will skip startup for backends that are not used by at least one database. The linked patch deals with this limitation and a few bugs encountered along the way (some code has not been exercised in a long time and has suffered from some bitrot). The support to provide backend global configuration was nominally present but has never worked with cn=config. The first two patches deal with that. The last patch introduces a new backend flag that indicates that it should be started up even if there is no database using it. IPR notice: The linked files are derived from OpenLDAP Software. All of the modifications to OpenLDAP Software represented in the following patches were developed Symas corp. Symas corp. has not assigned rights and/or interest in this work to any party. I, Ondrej Kuznik am authorized by Symas corp. to release this work under the following terms. Symas corp. hereby place the following modifications to OpenLDAP Software (and only these modifications) into the public domain. Hence, these modifications may be freely used and/or redistributed for any purpose with or without attribution and/or other notice.
On 21. mai 2018 17:07, ondra@openldap.org wrote: > In order to support the load balancer within the slapd process and integrate > correctly, we declare it to be a backend as that is the best match - allows us > to register all the callbacks that a subsystem like this needs. (...) Please comment SLAP_BFLAG_STANDALONE, explaining this, even though that goes against the surrounding coding style:-( Also maybe struct BackendInfo could use a comment about database backends vs database-less backends. -- Hallvard
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 09:03:28AM +0000, h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no wrote: > On 21. mai 2018 17:07, ondra@openldap.org wrote: >> In order to support the load balancer within the slapd process and integrate >> correctly, we declare it to be a backend as that is the best match - allows us >> to register all the callbacks that a subsystem like this needs. (...) > > Please comment SLAP_BFLAG_STANDALONE, explaining this, even though that goes > against the surrounding coding style:-( Also maybe struct BackendInfo could > use a comment about database backends vs database-less backends. I've put a comment there. As for BackendInfo, there should be no difference as far as I understand. But there is probably quite a bit of context I'm still missing. -- Ondřej Kuzník Senior Software Engineer Symas Corporation http://www.symas.com Packaged, certified, and supported LDAP solutions powered by OpenLDAP
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