Re: PTH support in OpenLDAP 1.x

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 05:23 PM 5/19/00 -0400, wesley.craig@umich.edu wrote:
>> From:    Vinod Nair <vnair@broadjump.com>
>
>> Actually, I did build Pth with the --enable-syscall-soft option. The
>> "ldapsearch blocked" problem happens inspite of that.
>> --without-yielding-select seems to have helped though.

Just a quite note, if you built with soft syscalls enabled
(either via pth configure --enable-syscall-soft or via openldap
-DPTH_SYSCALL_SOFT=1 configure), select() should be the
pth select which should yield.  If it's not yielding, that
might be a bug in pth.

>So, what version of pth are you using?  Also, I wonder if your Solaris
>patch level is similar to mine.  I ask because I've built it both with
>and without yielding-select.  The test I built to help me answer your
>question was built "with" yeilding select.  I don't mean to imply that
>my way is better than your's, but understanding the difference is
>probably illuminating.