[sparks-discuss] libldap:ber_printf() 'O' in format string [PSARC/2008/607 FastTrack timeout 10/01/2008]

[Nicolas Williams]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 07:50:03PM +0200, Milan Jurik wrote:
> > Why are these functions part of libldap and not in their own library ?
> 
> Because 15 years history of libldap? :-)

Well, we could move these functions out into a separate library and then
leave behind filters for backwards compatibility.

But that's not this case.  Also, there's been a lot of reluctance to
make any changes to our libldap sources that aren't synchronized with
the upstream sources.  That's been a source of frustration for some of
us (e.g., idmapd has to work around an annoying SASL-related bug in
libldap; the workaround is for idmapd to do its own connection
management that duplicates what libldap already does).  If you can make
the case that we that we would get more value from diverging where
useful/necessary than from keeping diffs to a minimum, great.

Nico
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