Re: (ITS#5916) Allow alias dereferencing in search C API

[h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no]

ando@sys-net.it writes:
> Proxy backends use ldap_set_option(3) to set alias dereferencing when
> requested by a search operation (and do not clean it up afterwards, as
> far as I can tell).  Since LDAP handlers are pooled and reused, this
> behavior is inherently broken.

I note you committed this with an ldap_int_* interface.  But it could
be useful outside OpenLDAP code too.

Seems to me this is what client-side controls are for.  Extending the
client-side functionality without needing a new API.

-- 
Hallvard