Re: LDAP support enhancements... (XEmacs)

William> I think we could pretty easily do _really_ asynchronous searches. We can William> actually get the socket out of the LDAP library by using William> #ifdef HAVE_LDAP_GET_OPTION William> LBER_SOCKET fd; William> if (ldap_get_option(ld,LDAP_OPT_DESC,&fd) != LDAP_SUCCESS) William> { William> /* Could not get the descriptor, bail */ William> return(-1); William> } William> #else William> int fd = ld->ld_sb.sb_sd; William> #endif William> /* Somehow add the socket to the list of fd's the event loop is William> ** waiting on. If the event loop sees the FD as getting data, William> ** go into a do { } while (1) loop calling ldap_result() with a William> ** 0-second timeout. William> ** William> ** If we get a '0' back indicating a timeout, we must have William> ** gotten only a partial result back, and there are no more records to be William> ** read, so break out of the loop and handle the rest of the events. William> ** William> ** Otherwise, we got a result back, call a callback function that William> ** just gets a single LDAP record, and continue through the loop. William> */ William> This would be really nice, I think. We'd just have to add an William> 'event-stream-select-fd' that would be really close to the existing William> event-stream-select-process William> -Bill P. Sounds nice but to tell the truth I've never experienced a situation where I wished we had that feature so I really don't know if it's worth the effort given the sensitivity of the code we need to plug into. But if you feel it's important then definitely go for it, I am sure I will be happy to use it in the end. Oscar