[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#598361: Bug#598361: Cause of this issue

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Thursday, November 25, 2010 8:42 PM +0100 Klaus Flittner 
<klaus at flittner.org> wrote:

> I have the same issue on each debian squeeze installation.
>
> Looking at the source revealed, that the backend db is opened before
> the process is forked. (This is a patch added to solve #589915).
>
> During open of the db the alock file gets locked. But this lock is lost
> during fork and therefore the db is seen as unclean and not as used.
>
> Removing the said patch, slapcat with running slapd works as expected.
>
> Since the db is no longer locked while slapd is running, all tools like
> slapindex can be used on the database, potentially corrupting it.
> This probably justifies a higher severity for this bug.

Thanks for finding the cause.  This is clearly a Debian inflicted issue 
then.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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