RE: backend private data

["David Parker" <david.parker@rocketsoftware.com>]

Oh, right. Should have seen that. I was looking at the Operation structure so I was thinking in terms of it being per-request data, but it lives with the backend instance....

Thanks. (and Thanks, Howard)

- DAP


> > At what point in the request processing does the
> > op->o_bd->be_private pointer get populated?
> 
> Typically you'll malloc it and set default values in bi->bi_db_init,
> fill it in bi->bi_db_config, and destroy it in bi->bi_db_destroy.
> See e.g. back-bdb/init.c.
> 
> > In back-ldap, for example, the be_private is being cast to a "struct
> > ldapinfo *", but I don't see anywhere in the slapd directory that
> > knows about this type,
> 
> The type is defined by a .h file in the backend.  It contains whatever
> data the backend needs to know about which is specific to backend and
> therefore not known by slapd proper.
> 
> -- 
> Hallvard
> 
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