Deleting records while iterating through ldap_result

[Stephen <sdw2@shineonline.co.nz>]

Hi everyone,

I'm using the C SDK and writing a program to prune old directory records.

The core logic of the program could go something like this:-

rc = ldap_search_ext( ld, .. <rest of parameters> );
while (!done) {
	rc = ldap_result( ld, .. <rest of parameters>, &searchResult) ;
	//Delete records matching criteria
	dn = ldap_get_dn( ld, searchResult );
 	rc = ldap_delete_ext_s( ld, dn, .. <rest of parameters>);
}

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I have two questions and they are probably related:-

Firstly: Can I delete records while iterating through the results of the 
ldap search? (In higher level languages deleting an item from a 
collection while navigating through a collection is often bad form. Is 
that the case here?)

Secondly: Can I use the same session handle to delete the records as is 
used for the search? In the logic above, the session handle is ld, and 
ld is used for both the search and for the deletion.
(I'm expecting I would need to use a different session handle for the 
logic above to work. Alternatively one could save all the records to be 
deleted in an array and then after the search loop, the same session 
handle can be used for all the deletes).

Thank you
Stephen