Re: Empty suffix database vs. rootDSE

--On Monday, April 19, 2010 4:16 AM +0200 [email protected] wrote:

> I've noticed that if a producer is rooted at the empty suffix, searches
> for the rootDSE (base="", scope="base"), return an entry consisting in the
> rootDSE entry plus the producer's contextCSN.
>
> I've tracked this down to backend_operational(): at some point, when the
> entry is almost ready, selects the database that serves the empty DN, and
> calls that database's be_operational() helper; here syncprov_operational()
> adds the contextCSN.
>
> Is this intended?  I'm asking because indeed this is the only way we can
> get the contextCSN for that database; searches with base="" and scope
> other than "base" would return the database's entries but no entry with
> empty dn.

I doubt it is intended, and it likely should behave the same as all other 
scenarios.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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