tdbexport (was Re: Working on LDAP support in HEAD)

[Jeremy Allison]

Tim Potter wrote:

> I've been thinking about this - currently there's no way to
> determine the type of some data stored in a tdb.  So I think it
> is therefore impossible to write a tdb exporter that can handle
> byte-ordering dependencies as this information is not stored in
> the tdb!
>

There are tricks to deal with this - store a 2 byte int
of a known value, extract it and then check the ordering.

So long as you know the type of the data stored in a tdb
(and you must do or you couldn't interpret it on extract)
then it should be ok.

Jeremy.

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