I am using ldap_search_ext_s with an attrs parameter that looks something like this: const char* attrs[] = { "cn", "statusCode", NULL };

Previously, I did not have the const qualifier on there, but I increased the warning level of my compiler, and it was (correctly) complaining that I was treating string constants as non-constant.

Unfortunately, the ldap_search_ext_s function is declared *without* the const qualifier:

LDAP_F( int ) ldap_search_ext_s LDAP_P(( LDAP *ld, LDAP_CONST char *base, int scope, LDAP_CONST char *filter, char **attrs, <------ here int attrsonly, LDAPControl **serverctrls, LDAPControl **clientctrls, struct timeval *timeout, int sizelimit, LDAPMessage **res ));

Does this mean that I really do need to pass in mutable buffers, or is the API incorrect? If it needs to be mutable, under what conditions will those be changed, and do I need to re-initialize the values after every call? I notice that other ldap libraries (e.g. IBM's Tivoli Directory Server) *do* use const for that parameter.

eric