Re: Thread pool contexts and SLAPI

[Ganesan R <rganesan-ldap@myrealbox.com>]

>>>>> "Luke" == Luke Howard <lukeh@PADL.COM> writes:

> Is there a way we could extend libldap_r to return the thread
> context for the current thread?

That would be definitely useful. 

> I note that there isn't a ldap_pvt_thread_self(). If there was,
> then the thread pool could maintain a thread ID / context 
> table.

> Thoughts? I really need to get this working :-)

Is it okay to do the work in another thread? Then you could use
ldap_pvt_thread_pool_submit() which will give you a working context.
I had to resort to this trick so that I can read some configuration
information from LDAP when slapd is coming up.

Ganesan

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Ganesan R