[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#528695: libldap-2.4-2: ldap.conf(5) manual page doesn't specify units of limit quantities

[Daniel B.]

Package: libldap-2.4-2
Version: 2.4.11-1
Severity: normal


The ldap.conf(5) manual page doesn't specify the units in the quantities 
specified by configuration options as SIZELIMIT.

For example, the text says:

      SIZELIMIT <integer>
              Specifies  a  size limit to use when performing searches.
              The number should be a non-negative  integer.   SIZELIMIT
              of zero (0) specifies unlimited search size.

Note how the text says nothing about _how_ the integer specifies a limit.
(It doesn't say whether the integer is a number of bytes, megabytes, 
entries, attributes, or even something else.)


The TIMELIMIT documentation is similar:

       TIMELIMIT <integer>
              Specifies  a  time limit to use when performing searches.
              The number should be a non-negative  integer.   TIMELIMIT
              of  zero  (0) specifies unlimited search time to be used.
              VERSION {2|3} Specifies what version of the LDAP protocol
              should be used.

(It doesn't specify whether the integer is the number of seconds--or
maybe milliseconds or something.)


In contrast, for a precedent to follow, notice how the documentation of 
the TIMEOUT configuration option _does_ give the units (seconds):

       TIMEOUT <integer>
              Specifies  a  timeout  (in  seconds) after which calls to
              synchronous LDAP  APIs  will  abort  if  no  response  is
              received.  Also used for any ldap_result(3) calls where a
              NULL timeout parameter is supplied.






-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libldap-2.4-2 depends on:
ii  libc6                    2.7-18          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgnutls26              2.4.2-6+lenny1  the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libsasl2-2               2.1.22.dfsg1-23 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra

libldap-2.4-2 recommends no packages.

libldap-2.4-2 suggests no packages.

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