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Re: (ITS#3831) strange scopes[] in syncrepl.c



h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no wrote:
> Ah, of course.  So it backs up to always use the same textual name for
> the same scope.  Except, since 0 == LDAP_SCOPE_BASE it looks like
> scope=base will back up to use scopes[-1] or less.
>
> I suggest the drastic step of adding a "don't use this name" flag
> instead, then it will actually be readable:-)
>   

Yes, I think we should change this to something a bit more readable. The 
scope=base behavior certainly looks bad; we're just lucky that nobody 
has bothered to set up syncrepl to replicate only a single object so far.

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