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Re: commit: ldap/servers/slapd aci.c at.c schema_init.c schemaparse.c slap.h syntax.c
Kurt Zeilenga wrote:
> Kind of in right vein, but a bit off.
>
> An attribute of syntax X can only be a subtype of an attribute of syntax
> Y if Y is a more generic syntax. In particular, all abstract values
> representable in X must be representable in Y.
>
> While both printable string and directory string syntaxes are more generic
> than country string, directory string is not more generic than printable
> string. This is because printable string can represent zero length
> character strings and directory string cannot.
>
> So, what needed, for each syntax, is a list of more generic syntaxes.
Sure. I'm a bit rusty with details of syntaxes, and I got misled by
some "printable" 'round which probably referred to "generically being
printable" rather than "based on Printable Syntax". I'll rework that.
p.
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