Re: Status of ldap_init_fd and LDAP_PROTO_EXT?

[Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke@SerNet.DE>]

On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 11:57:28AM +0100, Howard Chu wrote:
> Generally, <ldap.h> was only supposed to export the "official" LDAP API and
> anything that was specific to OpenLDAP's implementation was stashed in
> <ldap_pvt.h> as non-standard features. I suppose the distinction is somewhat
> meaningless these days since the last LDAP API RFC was only valid for LDAPv2
> and a version for LDAPv3 was never approved. At this point, OpenLDAP's API
> is the de facto standard. As clumsy as it may be...

So I'm getting from this that ldap_pvt.h should be installed and that
you don't plan to change this arbitrarily. "pvt" to me meant
"private". For Samba, if we have a "private" API, we take the liberty
to change this without real notice.

Thanks,

Volker