Re: redesigning the client API

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Volker Lendecke wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:27:49AM -0800, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
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> > Of course, the devil is in the details.
> >
> > Comments?
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> One thing I never really liked is the way the RFC API handles memory. All the
> different _free routines are a bit confusing to me. Samba4 has a generic memory
> allocator library along the lines of http://swapped.cc/halloc/. You can hang
> arbitrary memory to a "parent". When you free the parent, all children are
> automatically freed. This greatly simplifies Samba4 memory management, I'd
> *love* to see something like that incorporated, especially as an LDAP PDU can
> be rather complex in terms of memory.
>
> Volker
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Sounds interesting, worth a look.

One peeve of mine is to fix the asymmetric parts of the API names -> 
bind vs unbind for example. There should be a library init/deinit 
function, maybe a session open/close, and "Unbind" should only send the 
Unbind request, not do anything else.

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