On 06/14/2018 11:58 PM, Howard Chu wrote: > Michael Ströder wrote: >> On 06/14/2018 10:44 PM, Howard Chu wrote: >>> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: >>>> idle-timeout -> The man page says takes an integer, but is defined as >>>> a string. However, I think the man page for this parameter is >>>> incorrect, and in fact it takes a possible string as defined in the >>>> back-meta/async manual pages for this same parameter. (I.e, it can >>>> have a format of something like 1d15h5s) >>> >>> I don't see this. The man page says "<time>". It looks correct to me. >> >> Wouldn't it be better to consequently convert time strings such as >> 1d15h5s to integer seconds during migration of static config to dynamic >> config? IMO for LDAP-on-the-wire those values should always be integer >> representing seconds (or milli-seconds if needed). >> >> I mean back-config content is meant to be machine-processable and >> cleaner syntax would reduce unneeded complexity. > > The complexity is already there, and obviously somebody thought it was > desirable for these things to be human-readable. We're doing them no > favors by converting to straight integers.
It's not only about the complexity in OpenLDAP software itself. All 3rd-party components which want to make use of back-config for automated configuration have to deal with it. And that's not going to happen. Ciao, Michael.
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