Full_Name: Aaron Richton Version: HEAD OS: irrelevant URL: https://www.nbcs.rutgers.edu/~richton/syncrepl-modrdn-tests.patch Submission from: (NULL) (67.85.181.229)

Per http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200812/msg00004.html these patches enhance tests to detect ITS#5809-like behavior.

The actual test changes are at the address linked to this report. They should apply clean to HEAD and can be used immediately with, for example, back-ldif. I note that I wasn't able to reproduce a failure under test018; if anybody can suggest a different test there, that'd be great, or perhaps the stopping and starting somehow masks the condition?

While verifying the tests, I noticed that some backends (such as back-bdb) were failing because the consumer and provider returned the attributes in a different order. Since attribute ordering isn't guaranteed, I viewed this as a test failure rather than a slapd failure, and used the back-ndb gawk acfilter.sh to work around this. In the end I just made it apply to all backends:

https://www.nbcs.rutgers.edu/~richton/acfilter.patch

but we'll probably want to discuss this on -devel: it adds a gawk dependency to the tests.

With the acfilter.sh sorting enabled, I found three tests that don't filter the original data prior to ldapsearch comparison. I added these filters in:

https://www.nbcs.rutgers.edu/~richton/openldap-testflt.patch

We all know that nothing's free -- a couple extra commands in the name of bug coverage is probably worth it -- but the gawk dependency may be troublesome. Anyway, do what you will...I consider these pretty trivial, so:

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