Re: modifyTimestamp limitations

[Rayed Al-Rashed <rayed@riy-01-s5.saudi.net.sa>]

Thank you Frank for replying, I already tried it on 2.1.12 and it didn't 
work.
But I wonder if there is any implemented ordering rule that can be used 
for a user defined time stamp.

Frank Swasey wrote:

> Today at 8:40am, Rayed Al-Rashed wrote:
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> > Is this a limitation in the LDAP specification it self, or is it OpenLDAP
> > problem?
> >    
>
> In the 2.0.27 source code (servers/slapd/schema_init.c) the ordering 
> rule for generalizedTimeOrderingMatch is not implemented.  Instead, the 
> code uses caseIgnoreIA5Match.  This is NOT an ordering match, so you 
> can't do what you are looking for.  Since this is in violation of the 
> LDAP specification, it is an OpenLDAP problem (in my opinion).
>
> I haven't looked at the 2.1.x source code yet, so I don't know if it has 
> been fixed there or not.
>
> Since 2.1 was just recently marked "stable" immediately after the third
> release to fix bugs in as many days, I've been a little slow to rush to
> upgrade my production servers...
>
>