Re: (ITS#8671) Declare ldap_init_fd() in ldap.h to help external consumers

[ondra@mistotebe.net]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 03:39:24PM +0000, quanah@symas.com wrote:
> --On Thursday, October 19, 2017 10:20 AM +0300 Alexander Bokovoy 
> <abokovoy@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi Quanah,
>>
>> On ti, 12 syys 2017, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>>> Hi Alexander,
>>>
>>> Your submission appears to be missing an IPR statement as noted at
>>> <https://www.openldap.org/devel/contributing.html#notice>.  This is
>>> required for your submission to be evaluated.  Please add an IPR at
>>> your earliest convenience.
>> Attached is a re-based patch set since there were changes in git master
>> in last month or so that affected the same area.
>>
>> There are two patches: one for git master, one for 2.4 branch. Since
>> there is no functional change in the code, I'd like to see the 2.4
>> version in an upcoming release as that would greatly help Samba.
>>
>> I'm also including an IPR notice below:
>>
>> Red Hat, Inc. hereby place the following modifications to OpenLDAP
>> Software (and only these modifications) into the public domain.
>> Hence, these modifications may be freely used and/or redistributed
>> for any purpose with or without attribution and/or other notice.
> 
> Thanks very much!  I'll get this into my scratch repo for review.

Hi Alexander,
as of commit 6a5e30674b63b17587738ba9a3d1ea3633c33fb1, OpenLDAP master
now ships and installs a new header <openldap.h> that should expose
ldap_init_fd(). Could you check this will work for Samba before we apply
this change in 2.4?

Thanks,

-- 
OndÅ?ej Kuzník
Senior Software Engineer
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