Re: wldap32 implemented on top of OpenLDAP libraries

[Hans Leidekker <hans@it.vu.nl>]

On Tuesday 20 September 2005 01:24, Howard Chu wrote:

> That's pretty interesting news, thanks for sharing it. I would guess you
> could even gain some measure of thread-safety (using libldap_r) which
> native wldap32 lacks. Probably a moot point, since Windows apps would be
> written to assume a non-threadsafe library.

I'm not sure why you say that native wldap32 lacks thread-safety, MSDN
certainly claims these calls are thread-safe. Do you have evidence to
the contrary? Maybe this has changed in the mean time?

Whatever the case may be, yes, having libldap_r is helpful in providing
thread-safety, otherwise I probably would have had to do that myself ;-).

And because Wine requires thread support on the Unix platform it runs on I
suspect that there's a great overlap with the platforms where libldap_r is 
available.

Still, we don't support some apps out there (very old apps probably, don't
know about any) that access the LDAP context structure directly, instead
of using ldap_{get,set}_option(). Not because of thread-safety issues,
but because we don't use a Windows compatible context structure, we simply
pass on pointers to OpenLDAP context structures.

 -Hans