timeout has nothing to do with the duration of an operation.

I'm confused then. Manual page ldap.conf(5) states:

       TIMEOUT <integer>
              Specifies a timeout (in seconds) after which calls to synchronous LDAP APIs will abort if no response is received.  Also used for any
              ldap_result(3) calls where a NULL timeout parameter is supplied.

The duration of an operation is the call to the LDAP API plus the time it takes for the response/result, no? What am I missing here?

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