Re: OpenLDAP locks

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

GaÃtan Slongo wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I saw on a book

what book?

> that OpenLDAP locks parent entries when an entry is
> updating... It's true ?
> Example :
>
> If I'm updating "uid=username,ou=Users,dc=mydomain",
> "ou=Users,dc=mydomain" and all children will be locked (write lock?)
> while the update is performing ??

Are you kidding?  Who can write that type of crap?  There used to be a 
giant write lock in back-ldbm ages ago, which locked up the whole 
database, not just descendants, while writing.  Nothing like that occurs 
since back-bdb (and back-hdb), which means since OpenLDAP 2.0 (back to 
2000).

p.


Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
OpenLDAP Core Team

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