Bug 213301

Summary: RFE: eliminate the use of char *dn in favor of Slapi_DN *dn
Product: [Retired] 389 Reporter: Noriko Hosoi <nhosoi>
Component: Directory ServerAssignee: Noriko Hosoi <nhosoi>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version: 1.0.2CC: rmeggins
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Description Noriko Hosoi 2006-10-31 18:29:46 UTC 
Description of problem:
Bugzilla Bug 199923: subtree search fails to find items under a db containing
special characters
(In reply to comment #11)
> That's what Slapi_DN is supposed to do - normalize once, and be able to get
> normalized and "raw" DN where needed.  We should use Slapi_DN as much as
> possible.  We might want to schedule some time to do some much needed API
> revisions to eliminate the use of char *dn in favor of Slapi_DN *dn.  But not
> for 7.2.

In one operation, substr_dn_normalize could be called multiple times against the
same dn).  We should avoid it.
Comment 1 Rich Megginson 2011-08-29 16:43:15 UTC 
performance related work
Comment 2 Martin Kosek 2012-01-04 13:48:08 UTC 
Upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/139