On Jul 8 21:22, Denis Excoffier wrote: > > On 2014-07-07 13:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > For enumerating a non-primary domain, I get exactly two calls to > > cyg_ldap::open which actually do a connect. The first call opens the > > domain for enumeration. The second call opens the primary domain (NULL) > > to fetch the POSIX offset value for the foreign domain (see my document > > explaining the POSIX offset stuff), unless the application or one of > > its parent processes already fetched the POSIX offset for this domain. > > > > I don't observer any further calls to connect in this scenario. > > > > > In your preliminary documentation (your message dated 2014-06-25, please > correct "seet" in it), trustPosixOffset is "some arbitrary 32 bit value", > ie including 0. > > In your code (fetch_posix_offset), td->PosixOffset is used to record the > value and also (when 0) to record that the value has still not been > fetched. > > I have encountered this case in real life. The domain admins have set > the trustPosixOffset of the secondary domain to zero. This value is therefore > never recorded and the cldap->open occurs again and again.
Ouch. Why on earth are admins doing this? There's no way to workaround this reliably. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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