[email protected] wrote: > Back in June, Gerry replied to me privately. Copying his thoughts > here, with his permission: > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Gerry Calderhead > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It's been a while since I looked at this - in fact since I originally >> reported it. >> In the end I concluded it was too much work for me to continue investigating >> and re-implemented autogroup using an external perl script >> and removed it from my build of openldap. >> >> My conclusion at the time, IIRC, was that the overlay architecture was a bit >> broken and needed a re-think, specifically to avoid the need to be reentrant >> - ultimately, by making the overlay CB's asynchronous.
The autogroup overlay's design was broken, yes. The overlay mechanism overall is fine. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
