Re: (ITS#5408) back-ldif bugs

h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no wrote:

Here are a bunch of back-ldif bugs some questions. I have code for most of it, but need advice/discussion on functionality changes.

• When back-ldif uses OS-specific escaping, we can't move a directory tree between Windows and Unix hosts if some RDN in the tree contains characters with OS-specific escaping.

This is never a priority. The only documented way to move databases is via slapcat/slapadd. I'm perfectly fine with a Windows-specific special case that simply maps all forbidden characters to control-characters, or some other equally obscure approach. (E.g. map all forbidden characters to the same character.) The typical Windows admin will never see the raw filenames anyway.