Xavier Beaudouin wrote:

By the way, I still don't understand why this kind of script was working on openldap 2.1 and 2.2.... ?

Does str2entry() is more picky since openldap 2.3 ?

The fact that something __worked__ doesn't mean it was correct. That code working was apparently the consequence of two bugs canceling each other.

str2entry() is not just more picky: it has been __entirely__ rewritten, to reduce the performance impact of the related memory allocation, which guaranteed orders of magnitude of improvement from 2.0 to 2.3 (the amount of fragmented malloc()s was a considerable bottleneck). Redesigning code for performance, as well as for stricter adherence to specs, is part of its natural evolution.

No surprise that such a careful redesign resulted, as a side effect, in a stricter compliance with RFC2589. The fact that nobody complained up to now indicates that strict adherence to specs usually helps in code portability.

p.

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