Re: Problem found: Problems with schema changes

[Chris R. <chr...@me...>]

Clif Harden <cl...@di...> wrote:
> 
> Jim and Graham,
> 
> What I find strange is why the schema code could parse the record
> before the patches and not afterwords.  I/we did not change anything
> in the parse code.
> 
> I also think that the ' in I'M should be escaped with a
> \ if it is going to be used this way.
> 
> Clif Harden

RFC 2252 doesn't say how to deal with this. Incidentally this issue has
just come up on the ldapbis mailing list, and there are a couple of
suggestions on how to fix it - \hex, \char, or doubling-up-the-quote eg ''.
(I think \hex is more like the quoting used in other bits of LDAPv3 and
therefore more sensible to use. Other peoples' mileage varies. Handling
doubling-up in a regex is a bit of a pain.)

I'd say it is a pretty dubious thing to have in a schema token, and the
vendor should certainly be notified (which Jim's done.)

Cheers,

Chris