Re: ITS#4933

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Never mind, I misread this ITS, which is about search timelimits. Completely 
unrelated.

Howard Chu wrote:
> So it looks like changing libldap to use the tm_api timeout might have been a 
> bad idea. All the existing apps assume that passing a NULL timeout gives an 
> unlimited timeout. Now this is only true if there is no default timeout set in 
> ldap.conf/ldaprc. If there is such a setting, then an app can't actually get an 
> unlimited timeout unless it explicitly calls ldap_set_option() to override any 
> value read from a config file.
>
> Any thoughts? Without that change, the tm_api value is a no-op and totally 
> useless. Perhaps it's an option that should not be valid in any config file, 
> and only valid from an app?


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