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RE: Fixing Windows port (ITS#2992)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-bugs@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-bugs@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of
Alexey.Melnikov@isode.com

> Howard Chu wrote:
>
> >re: geteuid/getegid which was used for SASL/EXTERNAL over
> ldapi sockets - at
> >some point it might make sense to implement the
> corresponding functionality
> >using Windows named pipes. An exercise for down the road...
> >
> Sure. I actually think that pipes will not be required, there
> is another
> API for manipulating current user associated with the process.

I was actually referring to using named pipes for the actual ldapi
implementation. Yes, there is a separate API for obtaining the identity of
the peer, but at the moment I don't believe we have ldapi supported on
Windows at all.

  -- Howard Chu
  Chief Architect, Symas Corp.       Director, Highland Sun
  http://www.symas.com               http://highlandsun.com/hyc
  Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support