Re: order of attribute values

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:46 PM -0700 "Kurt D. Zeilenga" 
<Kurt@OpenLDAP.org> wrote:

> At 12:18 PM 10/13/2005, Forest Hill wrote:
> > In current implementations OpenLDAP (2.2.x & 2.3.x) what's the stand of
> > guaranteeing order of attribute values?
>
> slapd(8) guarantees not to rely on the order in which values
> are presented as elements of a set have no intrinsic order.
> Other LDAP software should make the same guarantee.
>
> That is, slapd(8) does not care about the order of values
> as, by specification, there is none.  slapd(8) does not to
> define an ordering of elements in a SET OF AttributeValues
> and, hence, makes no attempt to maintain that order or
> any other perceived ordering.
>
> (ignoring certain slapd(8) cn=config extensions to LDAP)

Unless of course, you use the valsort overlay. ;)

--Quanah


--
Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITSS/Shared Services
Stanford University
GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html

"These censorship operations against schools and libraries are stronger
than ever in the present religio-political climate. They often focus on
fantasy and sf books, which foster that deadly enemy to bigotry and blind
faith, the imagination." -- Ursula K. Le Guin