Re: use of ldap_str2dn()

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Arthur de Jong wrote:
> I'm the maintainer of nss_ldapd [1] which is a replacement for nss_ldap.
> I have been trying to get rid of using deprecated functions while
> compiling with OpenLDAP 2.4.7.
>
> One of the changes I made was using ?ldap_str2dn() instead of
> ldap_explode_dn() and ldap_explode_rdn() to parse the DN of entries
> returned. However, I ran into the following.
>
> The relevant definitions for ??ldap_str2dn() in OpenLDAP 2.4.7 are:
>
> typedef struct ldap_ava {
> [...]
> } LDAPAVA;
> typedef LDAPAVA** LDAPRDN;
> typedef LDAPRDN* LDAPDN;
> LDAP_F( int )
> ldap_str2dn LDAP_P((
>          LDAP_CONST char *str,
>          LDAPDN *dn,
>          unsigned flags ));
>
> While OpenLDAP 2.1.30 (another version I would like to support) there
> is:

OpenLDAP 2.1? Why? That's been unsupported for 3-4 years already.

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