Sharma, Ramakant 2. (Nokia - IN/Bangalore) wrote:

Hi Howard,

Please provide your valuable inputs for the below patch.

It is a little strange that ldap_set_option() takes a string but ldap_get_option() returns a binary structure. get/set should be totally symmetric. It would be simplest to just save a copy of the string given to set and return the string in get.

In libldap/os-ip.c, you should not be using ldap_get_option() to retrieve the values. You're operating inside libldap, you can access the structure directly. In particular, it's a waste to use ldap_get_option here and create a dynamically allocated copy of the address struct. Look at how the existing code works. Notice that it just uses ld->ld_options directly.

This is rule #1 in software development - when extending existing code, your new code should do things the same way existing code does. Corollaries to this rule are: don't patch code without reading it first, and don't patch code without studying its complete context.

Also let us know how to proceed further.

BR, Ramakant Sharma

-----Original Message----- From: Sharma, Ramakant 2. (Nokia - IN/Bangalore) Sent: Monday, January 28, 2019 10:10 AM To: Howard Chu hyc@symas.com; openldap-its@OpenLDAP.org Cc: Singam, Sudhir (Nokia - IN/Bangalore) sudhir.singam@nokia.com Subject: RE: (ITS#8847) New LDAP URL syntax to support binding to specific IP address at client side

Hi Howard,

I have uploaded the new patch which addresses the previous comments.

Kindly check and provide your valuable comments .

ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ramakant-sharma-190121.patch

BR, Ramakant Sharma