Re: (ITS#8859) Support backends without a database

[ondra@mistotebe.net]

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.

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