Re: (ITS#6628) Connection numbering starts at 1000

[quanah@zimbra.com]

--On Wednesday, August 25, 2010 3:12 AM +0200 masarati@aero.polimi.it wrote:

>> --On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 5:47 PM -0700 Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> quanah@zimbra.com wrote:
>>>> Full_Name: Quanah Gibson-Mount
>>>> Version: 2.4.23
>>>> OS: Linux 2.6
>>>> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
>>>> Submission from: (NULL) (75.111.45.108)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> With OpenLDAP 2.4.23, new connections start numbered at 1000 instead of
>>>> at 1
>>>
>>> No. cvs log shows that this was patched about a year ago and first
>>> released in 2.4.20. Not a bug, closing this ITS.
>>
>> Connections starting at 1000 is clearly a bug, regardless of when it was
>> introduced.
>
> That was intended, to store connections as unsigned and reserve lower
> numbers for special connections (e.g. internal operations and so).  I
> don't see how using an arbitrary offset in logs can be considered a bug.
> 1000 is much like 10, 1024, 666 or 0xbad.

Eh, I just need to re-write some scripts to start some things at 1000 then. 
;)

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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