On Aug 11, 2010, at 8:29 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> Full_Name: Gareth Palmer >> Version: CVS HEAD >> OS: Ubuntu 9.04 >> URL: >> = http://www.acsdata.co.nz/patches/openldap-back_perl-unbind-100811.patch >> Submission from: (NULL) (202.21.137.14) >>=20 >>=20 >> Hello, >>=20 >> This patch adds support for passing through unbind requests to the >> underlying >> module when using the perl backend. >=20 > In this patch, the unbind operation is bypassed if requested by the > rootdn. You seem to consider "unbind" as the opposite of "bind", = while it > is a request to shutdown a connection between client and server. As = such, > it should be honored also when the connection is bound as the rootdn.
More to the point, backends should not be dependent on close (nor open) = connection events. Hence this patch ought to be rejected. -- Kurt=
