Re: How to select(2)?

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

You can use ldap_get_option(ld, LDAP_OPT_DESC, &sd) to access
the primary file descriptor associated with a session handle.

At 12:37 AM 2/14/01 +0100, Dr Andreas F Muller wrote:
>Hello,
>
>in OpenLDAP 1 it was possible, although bad style,  to  take  the
>file  descriptor  from  the  LDAP  structure and select(2) on it.
>This file descriptor could then be  used  e.g.  as  a  source  of
>events  in  an  X11  application.  OpenLDAP  2 defines structures
>opaque, which is fine from the theoretical point of view, but I'm
>probably  still  to  dumb  to see how I can wait for data on some
>file descriptor as well as on the LDAP connection and handle  the
>first that has something. Without busy-waiting, of course.
>
>Mit herzlichem Gruss
>
>                                        Andreas Mueller
>
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