I think we could pretty easily do _really_ asynchronous searches. We can actually get the socket out of the LDAP library by using #ifdef HAVE_LDAP_GET_OPTION LBER_SOCKET fd; if (ldap_get_option(ld,LDAP_OPT_DESC,&fd) != LDAP_SUCCESS) { /* Could not get the descriptor, bail */ return(-1); } #else int fd = ld->ld_sb.sb_sd; #endif /* Somehow add the socket to the list of fd's the event loop is ** waiting on. If the event loop sees the FD as getting data, ** go into a do { } while (1) loop calling ldap_result() with a ** 0-second timeout. ** ** If we get a '0' back indicating a timeout, we must have ** gotten only a partial result back, and there are no more records to be ** read, so break out of the loop and handle the rest of the events. ** ** Otherwise, we got a result back, call a callback function that ** just gets a single LDAP record, and continue through the loop. */ This would be really nice, I think. We'd just have to add an 'event-stream-select-fd' that would be really close to the existing event-stream-select-process -Bill P.