Re: LDAP C API: LDAP_OPT_DESC

[mcs@netscape.com (Mark C Smith)]

"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:
> 
> At 11:46 AM 6/21/99 -0400, Mark Smith wrote:
> >Hallvard makes a good point that we don't say what you can do with the
> >value returned by LDAP_OPT_DESC.
> 
> It's implementation specific...

Agreed (and having access to the underlying socket is very useful to
some application developers).


> ...
> >For that reason, I propose that we
> >either strike LDAP_OPT_DESC from the spec. for now or say that support
> >for LDAP_OPT_DESC is optional and if it is supported it should return an
> >operation system TCP/IP I/O socket.
> 
> Would that be an TLI socket or a BSD socket?
> 
> I suggest LDAP_OPT_DESC and ber_socket_t be striken.

Reluctantly I agree.

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Mark Smith
Directory Architect / Sun-Netscape Alliance
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