RE: aliases

["Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

Now that the hierarchical caching is done, finishing this was trivial. I've
just checked in the remainder of the alias scoping code; aliases are now
fully supported in back-bdb.

  -- Howard Chu
  Chief Architect, Symas Corp.       Director, Highland Sun
  http://www.symas.com               http://highlandsun.com/hyc
  Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Howard Chu

> I've just checked in an implementation for BDB_ALIASES. It
> has one major
> shortcoming at the moment, which I'm still working out. It generates a
> correct list of candidates, fully dereferences all aliases in
> a subtree
> search, and never returns the same entry multiple times. The
> only problem is
> that it won't return deref'd entries outside of the original
> search scope
> back to the client, because the alias processing code doesn't
> propagate the
> new scope info back up to the main search function. The
> entries are in the
> candidate list, but fail the scope check and so get pruned
> out... Building an
> explicit scope list should fix this.
>
>   -- Howard Chu
>   Chief Architect, Symas Corp.       Director, Highland Sun
>   http://www.symas.com               http://highlandsun.com/hyc
>   Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support