Re: problems with Net::LDAP 0.16 on solaris

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 09:08:27PM +0100, Steve Haslam wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 07:49:24PM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> > The problem is that on Solaris recv will not always return the address
> > of the sender if the socket is connected. The fix for this is that
> > in Net::LDAP where is uses asn_recv it should have a defined check on the
> > result.
> > 
> > The CVS respository on sourceforge has this fix. There is also a patch
> > at http://download.sourceforge.net/perl-ldap
> 
> Ah, thanks...
> 
> OK, I still get a problem with 0.16 over 0.13. I can't use
> $sr->shift_entry. I can do
> 
> foreach $entry ($sr->entries) { ... }
> 
> but not
> 
> while ($entry = $sr->shift_entry) { ... }
> 
> Hm, upon trying again, it did give me an entry but then
> blocked... According to truss it's blocking in recvfrom()...

Well if the search is not complete and there are no entries in the queue
then it will block for the next entry.

> Also, sometimes I get the "$ldap received:" message and then no hex
> dump. Particularly if I'm requesting a large value (jpegPhoto
> attributes for instance).

Hm, does this happen if you changed to using asn_read ?

Graham.