Re: Run-time registered controls

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

I've updated controls.c/backends.c with a kludge which provide
proper criticality handling.

For password proxy control, which specification should allow the
control to be ignored (in contexts where its not available),
the control can be registered with the flag SLAP_CTRL_FRONTEND.

Kurt


At 09:04 AM 1/25/2005, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
>> So, yes, we do need a way for overlays to augment the
>> controls supported by a database instance.
>
>Looking at backover.c code, it appears that overlays at bi_db_open are
>passed the __real__ backend structure; so my proposal to have a "real"
>be_controls array in the backend structure which is a copy of the
>bi_controls + overlays and in general run-time modules augmentation looks
>feasible.  Unless there's a better way, I'd start code it (so I can test
>my overlay :)
>
>p.
>
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