Add more comments on linked attribute limitations

Stefan Metzmacher metze at samba.org
Tue Oct 30 09:33:19 UTC 2018


Hi Tim, hi Andrew,

> RB+ with the suggested changes.diff attached. I attached an updated
> version of the original patch too.
> 
> Suggested changes:
> - replmd_delete_internals(): I just moved the comment up a bit. (I found
> it a bit confusing to talk about not finding backlinks when we clearly
> had found one).
> - replmd_process_linked_attribute(): this function is complex enough,
> and replmd_delete_link_value() should already cover the DRS code-path.
> It might be better sticking a comment in linked_attributes.c instead.
> - minor elaboration on "filtering at runtime" and fixed typo.
> 
> On 30/10/18 4:01 PM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>> G'Day,
>>
>> While reviewing https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba/merge_requests/90 I
>> forgot how bad the limitations on our linked attribute handling are.

I've included this into my branch.

>> This commit just tries to add some more warnings that might help remind
>> the next person trying to remember why we can't have nice things.
>>
>> Please review so I can push with metze's patches.

Can I assume I can add a review tag to my patches and push them to master?

Thanks!
metze


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