Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
And in ldap_parse_result in libldap/error.c, as I've already pointed out, we
queue responses with their originating requests. Any LDAP Request can only have
one Result message, regardless of how many intermediate messages may be
included. So it appears that all accomodation for this
LDAP_MORE_RESULTS_TO_RETURN error code is just excess baggage.
The only thing I can think it exists for handling of
message chains containing responses in reply to
multiple requests.
Hmmm. But libldap never constructs chains in such a fashion; responses
are only chained to their originating request. And there are no APIs for
an external caller to link two separate chains together.
Also, in the C API draft section 14 "Handling Errors and Parsing
Results" it says "If a chain of messages that contains more than one
result message is passed to these routines the always operate on the
first result in the chain." And more importantly "If a value other than
LDAP_SUCCESS is returned, the values of all the result parameters are
undefined." So if you somehow got hold of an aberrant chain with more
than one result in it, our ldap_parse_result() would parse the first
result (as expected) and then discover the subsequent result, then
return LDAP_MORE_RESULTS_TO_RETURN which would totally invalidate all
the parsing it did on the first result.
Obviously trying to make sense out of things based on an old broken API
spec may not be very fruitful. But one way or another it should make
more sense than it currently does.
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