Re: commit: ldap/servers/slapd config.c

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Michael Ströder wrote:
> Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> > Come to think of it, one disadvantage of ignoring '-' and '_' rather
> > than treating them as the same: It somewhat increases the chance of name
> > clashes with option names in overlays.
>
> Yepp. The parameter's prefix should be prepended with a separator
> (either by hyphen or underscore). Otherwise one has to maintain a prefix
> code.

True for now, but I expect this sort of consideration to be less important 
going forward, as we emphasize cn=config and deprecate slapd.conf.

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