Re: libldap_r
Howard Chu wrote:
It seems the dichotomy between libldap and libldap_r is a relic from
the
bad old days of dcethreads / cmathreads when linking a threaded library
into an otherwise non-threaded program would cause all sorts of strange
and wonderful failures. Unless anyone knows of any current platform
where this is unsafe, I think it's time we dropped this distinction, and
just use libldap_r (until we get to writing a completely new C API).
libldap_r is still missing some thread-specific features though - we
should wrap all library initialization in a pthread_once() call, and we
should be using thread-specific data for the LDAP* errno value.
It should be detectable whether the new libldap behaves like former libldap_r.
In python-ldap all calls into libldap or libldap_r are serialized by locks in
the Python wrapper part. The locking is different if python-ldap was built
against libldap_r (locks are per connection then). So a clear distinction with
LDAP_API_VERSION would be appreciated.
Ciao, Michael.