Re: (ITS#8940) FR: LDAP_AVA_FREE_ATTR in ldapava_free()

[erik@halon.se]

In our case the pointer/allocated string ownership is preferable moved 
to the LDAPAVA object for both the value and attribute as the char* does 
not have the same lifetime as the LDAPAVA object.

Regards
Erik

On 2018-11-30 14:51, Howard Chu wrote:
> erik@halon.se wrote:
>> Full_Name: Erik Lax
>> Version: 2.4.46
>> OS: Linux
>> URL:
>> Submission from: (NULL) (212.85.68.184)
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's possible to set the flag LDAP_AVA_FREE_VALUE to clear ber values on the
>> LDAPAVA structure in ldapava_free() but it's not possible to set the
>> LDAP_AVA_FREE_ATTR to clear attributes. I suspect OpenLDAP internals does not
>> need to free attributes in this way (hence the missing code).
> Attribute Types are usually constant strings, so right, there should be no need to free them.
>
>> I'm building a custom LDAPAVA (LDAPDN) object and it would be useful to be able
>> to set this flags to have it properly clean up both values and attributes in
>> ldap_dnfree().
> It would be better to simply avoid the need to free them.
>