Re: (ITS#8931) deref'ing non-existent attributes should not result in protocolError

michael@stroeder.com wrote:

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In aehostd I try to limit the number of required search requests. Therefore I'm using the deref control to read group and sudoers entries referenced in service groups.

If there are no such references (yet) slapd currently returns protocolError.

I don't see this in the deref code. It only returns protocolError if there is any type of error when parsing the control itself. It knows nothing about any referenced entries when it's parsing the control. There are no other instances of protocolError in the overlay.