Re: (ITS#3528) add time limit options for bind and exop requests

[hyc@symas.com]

nalin@redhat.com wrote:

>Full_Name: Nalin Dahyabhai
>Version: 2.2.23
>OS: Linux 2.6
>URL: http://people.redhat.com/nalin/test/openldap-2.2-timeouts.patch
>Submission from: (NULL) (66.187.230.200)
>
>
>If I'm reading the code right, all bind requests and exop requests issued by
>libldap are allowed to block indefinitely.
>
>In cases where a TCP connection to a server will succeed, but the server is
>unresponsive (one contrived example would be if the server were stopped by
>SIGSTOP), a client which connects and attempts a simple bind will block until
>the server responds, which may be never.
>
>Additional API-level options which influence this behavior on the client side
>could be useful for working around this scenario.
>
As a further comment - your patch alters the ldap_*_s functions. These 
functions, by definition, are intended to block indefinitely. If you 
want timeouts, I believe your code should be using the asynchronous 
functions.

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