Howard Chu writes: >Hallvard B Furuseth wrote: >> One fix is to translate '-' to '_' internally in slapd.conf option >> names, or to ignore both. > > In the primary keywords (argv[0]) we can do this easily enough; we can > just provide table entries for the valid alternate forms. For > secondary keywords, I don't think there's an easy way to do it > uniformly.
I agree. Come to think of it, one disadvantage of ignoring '-' and '_' rather than treating them as the same: It somewhat increases the chance of name clashes with option names in overlays. These are typically prefixed with '<overlay name>-', exactly in order to avoid name clashes. Without the '-' the initial letters of some unrelated slapd.conf keyword might be the same. A programmable overlay (e.g. a perl overlay) could even claim all option names starting with '<overlay name>-'. >> Inconsistent with ldap.conf keywords though. > > I don't see any pressing reason to change that. OK. -- Hallvard
