Function : LDAP

ldap_result - Obtain the result of a previous asynchronously initiated operation.

#include <ldap.h>
int LNPUBLIC ldap_result(

    LDAP *ld,
    int  msgid,
    int  all,
    struct timeval *timeout,
    LDAPMessage **result);

Description :

This function is used to obtain the result of a previous asynchronously initiated operation.

Note that depending on how it is called, ldap_result can actually return a list or "chain" of result messages. The ldap_result function only returns messages for a single request, so for all LDAP operations other than search, only one result message is expected; that is, the only time the "result chain" can contain more than one message is if results from a search operation are returned. Once a chain of messages has been returned to the caller, it is no longer tied in any caller-visible way to the LDAP request that produced it.
However, it MAY be tied to the session handle. Therefore, a chain of messages returned by calling ldap_result or by calling a synchronous search routine will never be affected by subsequent LDAP API calls except for ldap_msgfree (which is used to dispose of a chain of messages) and the unbind calls (which dispose of a session handle): ldap_unbind, ldap_unbind_s, or ldap_unbind_ext, or functions defined by extensions of this API.

Implemented as a macro:

define ldap_result(ld, msgid, all, timeout, result) ND_ldap_result((ld),

(msgid), (all), (timeout), (result))

Parameters : Input : ld - The LDAP session handle.

msgid - The message id of the operation whose results are to be returned. See LDAP_RES_xxx.

all - Specifies how many messages will be retrieved in a single call to ldap_result. This parameter only has meaning for search results. See LDAP_MSG_xxx.

timeout - A timeout specifying how long to wait for results to be returned. A NULL value causes ldap_result to block until results are available. A timeout value of zero seconds specifies a polling behavior.

Output : (routine) - 0 - If the timeout expired.

-1 - If an error occurs, in which case the error parameters of the LDAP session handle will be set accordingly.

result - A result parameter that will contain the result(s) of the operation. See LDAP_RES_xxx. If an API error occurs or no results are returned, *result is set to NULL.