queries on ldb
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Wed Jan 4 12:12:11 GMT 2006
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 22:19 +1100, Brad Hards wrote:
> G'day all,
>
> After trying to do some doxygen based API documentation for ldb (for my own
> use, and to be merged if considered appropriate), I've come up with a few
> queries (more technical at the end):
> 1. How does the GPL'd ldb/include/dlinklist.h affect the otherwise LGPL'd LDB?
I'm sure this can be sorted. It is a very useful header :-)
> 2. Is there any reason why the license includes the FSF's old address? Will
> you take a patch to update it?
I'll take such a patch, if you do so for the entire Samba4 tree :-)
> 3. What is ldb_msg_canonicalize meant to do? I see that it sorts the elements
> of an ldb_message, but that surely isn't all. Can someone provide a message
> (or the LDIF that goes into such a message) that will be different after
> ldb_msg_canonicalize? Or an RFC reference that explains it?
> 4. What is the return value of ldb_search()? The comments in the header and
> source indicate it is supposed to be the number of records returned. However
> tools/ldb*.c show it being tested against LDB_SUCCESS (i.e. 0).
It has been changed, to return an error code, with the number of
messages being in another parameter (res->count).
Andrew Bartlett
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Student Network Administrator, Hawker College http://hawkerc.net
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