At 02:16 PM 11/13/2006, hyc@symas.com wrote:

As I recall there was some debate about making this available in ldap.conf, since setting it globally can break some applications that aren't expecting one behavior or another. I believe the option should remain undocumented, and the support for parsing it from ldap.conf should likely be removed. It should only be available when a program specifically requests it via ldap_set_option.

Same applies to timeouts as well. Basically, items are intended to provide defaults for applications which say "use default". Having options, such as this and various timeouts, which get used by the library without application saying "use default" are quite problematic and should be avoided.

Kurt