Re: commit: ldap/clients/tools ldapsearch.c

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

I'm presently thinking it better to lower the effective limit
to the hard limit instead of treating the too high limit
request as an (adminLimitExceeded or like) error.

At 02:25 PM 6/21/2004, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:

>> At 11:03 AM 6/18/2004, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>>>In slapd(8), if the user requests sizeLimit=0, they get the
>>>soft limit.   If they request sizeLimit>0, they get that limit
>>>as long as it is not greater than the hard limit otherwise
>>>an error occurs.
>>
>> s/otherwise an error occurs/otherwise the hard limit is used/
>>
>> (which is what I think the current slapd(8) behavior is)
>
>I confirm, the current behavior is that an error occurs
>if a limit greater than hard is explicitly requested
>by the client.  I've found the message thread where the
>limits behavior was designed.  Unless amended in later
>messages (I didn't follow the whole thread), this is what
>we agreed at the time.
>
>http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200107/msg00126.html
>
>Of course, we can amend it now; however, now the "max"
>mechanism allows to directly hit the hard limit, if any.
>
>Ciao, Ando.
>
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>Pierangelo Masarati
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