Re: ldap_result() timeout zero returns only one result at a time

On 12/02/2015 09:11, Howard Chu wrote:

Mark R Bannister wrote:

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So what I'm asking is, what is the best way of achieving the following workflow:

• start LDAP search
• start loop
• select() on FD, wake me up when there is data to read
• ldap.result() gives me ALL available data, and without waiting for

anything new

The ldap_result() manpage already tells you how things work. In fact, so does the python-ldap documentation. Your loop structure is wrong.

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• Attend to other unrelated events
• Go round loop again

You should be coding, instead:

• start LDAP search
• start loop
• select() on FD, wake me up when there is data to read

loop2:

• call ldap.result() with 0 timeout in a loop until it returns 0.

• Attend to other unrelated events

• Go round loop again

Thanks Howard, that kind of makes sense, but not understanding the internal workings of ldap.result(), what's to prevent loop2 taking, say, 5 seconds to complete? This could be a busy worker thread, I can't afford for it to take that much time out to process a single transaction.

Thanks, Mark.