https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10060
--- Comment #7 from Howard Chu hyc@openldap.org --- I'm inclined to make this a WONTFIX. Changing a 20+ year old library behavior just seems like a bad idea at this point. (Note that this in particular was also one of the behaviors that was explicitly changed between UMich LDAP and OpenLDAP 1.0. Bugs here go back a long way and any changes will have far-reaching effects.)