Re: trivial bug(+fix) and a not-so-trivial problem

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

On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 02:19:35PM +0200, Bob Pepin wrote:
> Hi,
> seems someone forgot a parameter to _sendmesg in the definition of unbind().
> Makes perl throw a runtime error when calling unbind().
> 
> --- perl-ldap-0.16/lib/Net/LDAP.pm.orig	Mon Jun  5 13:58:25 2000
> +++ perl-ldap-0.16/lib/Net/LDAP.pm	Mon Jun  5 13:10:44 2000
> @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
>      controls      => $arg->{control}
>    ) or return $mesg->set_error(LDAP_ENCODING_ERROR,"$@");
>  
> -  $ldap->_sendmesg();
> +  $ldap->_sendmesg($mesg);
>  }

This has already bee fixed in 0.18

> We had a problem with perl-ldap a few times that it would just hang when
> calling the search() method, and not send out any requests to the server
> anymore, but I couldn't reproduce it yet, though I suspect that it might have
> something to do with the connection to the ldap server having been open for a
> few days already in each case. Have been told that the error message included
> something about buffers, though I'm not sure about this. I suspect perl-ldap
> could be leaking something somewhere. This was all under perl-ldap 0.13.

If you could give more information, like a debug trace etc, it would be of
great help.

Graham.