Re: new module overlay modtrigger

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Maarten Vanraes wrote:
> Hey,
>
> a few years back i wrote an overlay module "modtrigger", that executes a
> script on modifications.

The preferred approach these days is to use slapo-sock.

fork/exec is still risky on some threading implementations. This is also why 
back-shell is not recommended for general use.

> Some of the comments i got was that it should really require to work with
> the new config structure.
>
> Finally i've done that, but i'm sure it could be improved.
>
> So, i'm kind of asking if someone can review it and give some pointers to
> improve.
>
> and next if it's possible to include in the openldap distribution, in the
> overlay section or contrib section.

Thanks for the effort but I don't believe it would be a good idea to include 
this code for the above reasons.

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