[Issue 9507] Output when setting LBER_OPT_DEBUG_LEVEL or LDAP_OPT_DEBUG_LEVEL

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9507

Howard Chu hyc@openldap.org changed:

What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |INVALID

--- Comment #1 from Howard Chu hyc@openldap.org --- (In reply to john from comment #0)

I have a web application (cgi) that uses libldap. When I set either of the options LBER_OPT_DEBUG_LEVEL or LDAP_OPT_DEBUG_LEVEL then the library's debug info goes to stderr, which ends in Apache's error_log file rather than my application's log file.

By reading the code, I discovered that I can do:

extern int ber_pvt_err_file;    

ber_pvt_err_file = getMyLogFP();    

and redirect the output where I want it. This is, of course, fragile. So, I would like to suggest the addition of something like:

FILE * fp = getYourDesiredFP();
ldap_set_option(NULL, LDAP_OPT_DEBUG_FILE, &fp);    
       <and>    
ber_set_option(NULL, LBER_OPT_DEBUG_FILE, &fp);

LBER_OPT_LOG_PRINT_FILE

Closing this ITS.