Re: Q: slap_mods2entry() behaviour ?

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 07:10 AM 2002-07-09, Heiko Nardmann wrote:
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>In OpenLDAP 2.0.25 in servers/slapd in file add.c there is a function 
>slap_mods2entry().
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>This function checks whether an attribute was already given. It IMHO assumes 
>that each attribute is only given once in the list of modifications. Else an 
>error is generated.

An AddRequest contains a list of attributes.  Each attribute
can only appear in that list once.

>Which part of the standard does this confirm to?

X.501.  Also RFC 2251 indicates that each attribute
is transferred as one 'Attribute' data type,
not multiple 'Attribute' data types.

Kurt