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Re: ldap_result returns 0 before exceeding timeout

At 07:07 AM 3/23/2005, xin@autograf.pl wrote:
>Hey,
>
>I'm performing ldap_modify operation and than getting result by calling ldap_result.
>
>If I set timeout to 1s mostly it executes correctly, but sometimes ldap_results returns 0 after 5ms as it would have exceeded timeout. If I set timeout to 500ms it always returns 0 after very short time (~5ms). If I set timeout to 1.1s it executes always correctly.
>
>Anyone have any idea why is it happening? I would like to have this timeout shorter than 1s.

There are a number of reasons why ldap_result() will return
sooner than the timeout (as well as a number of reasons why
the return will be longer than the timeout).  Your program
needs to deal with these possibilities in some appropriate
manner.

Kurt