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On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 18:43 -0700, Howard Chu wrote: > Andrew Bartlett wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 18:22 -0700, Howard Chu wrote: >=20 > >>> This needs to occur even between databases on the server, but I won't= ask that > >>> it occur outside the known trees. > >> It's already possible for operations in one database to reference entr= ies in a > >> different database, so that aspect of validation should be fine. Howev= er, as > >> noted before, "validation" is generally bogus to begin with. In partic= ular, > >> how do you create entries with circular references? If you disallow re= ferences > >> to nonexistent entries, you can't set the references until after all o= f the > >> entries have been created. This means that you cannot backup a databas= e that > >> has these references and then later reload it in a single pass. > > > > An interesting point, but I need to match the windows runtime > > behaviour. >=20 > Only when it has a visible impact on other clients. What software will br= eak=20 > if the directory allows you to add new entries that contain dangling=20 > references? What will break if the directory allows you to modify a refer= ence=20 > attribute to point to a nonexistent entry? Sure, I'm not asking for a change to default behaviours. I'm listing the things that our testsuite finds are differences, and looking for solutions.=20 > There's a lot of Windows behavior that is clearly wrong, by any number of= =20 > metrics. You need to be a bit more selective in prioritizing the list of=20 > things to chase down. This is the currently the top priority for an LDAP Backend for Samba4. =20 Andrew Bartlett --=20 Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc. --=-s2sha8beM9nUssvA07HS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBIPMMwz4A8Wyi0NrsRAljCAJsEsn1tsq4BdkdenNOEOF3PIGcDDACfVoUR APoU1kbv2ljwVBgjyhPbyGQ= =mXBr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-s2sha8beM9nUssvA07HS--
