Re: another followup to #ITS3304/#ITS3307 (FIXED, possibly?)

[Mike Thomas <mwt@cems.umn.edu>]

Well, in my haste, i forgot to say which file I changed, oops.

This fix was applied to libraries/libldap/result.c

--Mike

> Hello,
>
> I've never hacked around the OpenLDAP sources before, so forgive me if 
> I've applied an uneducated fix, but after reading the diff between 
> openldap 2.1.28 (working) and 2.1.29 (unworking) I went through and 
> found the problem that was causing the referral hanging problem.
>
> This is with OpenLDAP 2.1.30
>
> Here's the segment of code (lines 805-807)
>
>                    if ( lc != NULL ) {
>                                ldap_free_connection( ld, lc, 0, 1 );
>                                *lcp = NULL;
>                        }
>
> removing (or commenting out) the *lcp = NULL;  statement on line 807 
> resolves this problem. The searches now chase referrals correctly
> and the search terminates instead of hangs. Like I said before, I'm 
> fairly uneducated when it comes to the OpenLDAP code, I do not know if 
> this fix introduces and other problems, but I thought since there was 
> no progess (or stalled progress) on this bug, I'd investigate this 
> myself.
>
> --Mike