Re: (ITS#5540) Normalization assertion in attr.c

[hyc@symas.com]

unix.gurus@gmail.com wrote:
>>> namingContexts
>>> configContext
>>> dynamicSubtrees
>>>
>>> These attributes do not have equality matching rules, but probably
>>> should.  I add 'EQUALITY distinguishedNameMatch' to them in
>>> schema_prep.c.
>> No, that breaks the definitions in the RFCs they come from.  (See their
>> DESC strings.)  I don't know why they lack EQUALITY rules, maybe we just
>> forgot when we defined them, but that's the way it is.  Same with
>> supportedControl.

configContext is OpenLDAP-specific. It is also single-valued, so it seemed to 
me it did not need an EQ rule.

> Ok, so we should not define nvals for them?

No normalizer, therefore, cannot provide nval...

>> monitorContext, readOnly and the olc* attributes are defined by OpenLDAP
>> (their OIDs start with 1.3.6.1.4.1.4203) and can be modified if we feel
>> like it.  Personally I prefer attrs to have the matching rules they can
>> have unless there is a reason not to, but I didn't write these modules
>> so I don't know if there _is_ a reason not to.

For the config attributes, I just assumed no one needs to search on them (so 
no filter capability needed) and for single-valued attributes, there's no need 
to consider modifies...

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