Re: Fixing Windows port (ITS#2992)

[Alexey.Melnikov@isode.com]

Howard Chu wrote:

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>>From: owner-openldap-bugs@OpenLDAP.org
>>[mailto:owner-openldap-bugs@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of
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>Alexey.Melnikov@isode.com
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>>Howard Chu wrote:
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>>>re: geteuid/getegid which was used for SASL/EXTERNAL over ldapi sockets - at
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>>>some point it might make sense to implement the corresponding functionality
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>>>using Windows named pipes. An exercise for down the road...
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>>Sure. I actually think that pipes will not be required, there
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>>API for manipulating current user associated with the process.
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>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.
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Oh yes, sorry. It makes sense.

I was under impression that TCP connection over loopback was used?

Alexey
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