[ldapext] re: negative offsets revisted

[John McMeeking <jmcmeek@us.ibm.com>]

I can live with the current "byoffset" positioning.  If the list is stable,
it is a simple matter to move to any position in the list with the current
"byoffset" specification.  If the list is not stable, any attempt to do
relative movement within a result set is likely to yield unexpected
results:
- moving back from the end of the list, in a list that is growing at the
tail, could move you past the old end of list.
- moving forward from the start of the list, in a list that is growing at
the head, could move you prior to the old starting position.
- in general, even requesting the same position twice in a row could give
you quite different "views"


John  McMeeking

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