Re: poll/epoll patch for libldap?

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Nicholas Dronen wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I work on a commercial server application, a gateway, which uses
> pam_ldap to authenticate users in some situations. As a server
> application, it can easily exceed the 1024 default file descriptor limit
> of select(2), which has bitten us recently. Since the server application
> ships in an appliance, we can provide a patch in the form of an OpenLDAP
> RPM that's been recompiled with -DOPENLDAP_FD_SETSIZE. That fixes the
> immediate problem for us, but would you be willing to accept a patch to
> libldap that gave developers a programmatic way to use poll or epoll
> instead of having to recompile?

OpenLDAP's libldap has supported poll() since 2004. Whatever you're working 
with is far out of date. As stated here 
http://www.openldap.org/devel/contributing.html we only accept patches against 
current code.

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