Re: Niggling little changes

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Niggling little changes
Date: 15:27 on 07 Jul 2006
> sasl-regexp
>  uidNumber=([^,]*)\\+gidNumber=([^,]*),cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth
>  ldap:///ou=People,dc=example,dc=net??sub?(&(uidNumber=$1)(gidNumber=$2))
> 
> The problem?  From the logs:
> 
>  gidNumber=0+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth@xxxxxxx.xxx

This combines my hate for applications that provide inadequate tools for
parsing tagged data (regexps are wonderful for many things, but this isn't
one of them) with my hate for X.400. Thank you.

However:

> They reversed the order.  They frigging reversed the order!  Breaking
> every documented technique for handling unix socket peer credentials.

I'm confused, why would you expect the order of tagged elements in a list
to remain constant?

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