Re: How do I keep a search from hanging?

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

Thanks for an update. I will include this somewhere in the docs, I just have
to decide where :)

Graham.

On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 11:31:30AM -0500, Bryan Thale wrote:
> Thanks for your help Graham.
> 
> Here is what I finally ended up with based on your outline, a little
> wrapper routine to do the dirty work waiting for the request to complete
> or time out.
> 
> #
> # Wait for an async request to complete or time out
> #
> sub async_request
> {
>     my ($ldap, $completion, $timeout) = @_;
> 
>     my $selector = IO::Select->new( $ldap->socket );
> 
>     while ($selector->can_read( $timeout ))
>     {
>  $ldap->_recvresp();
>  last if ($completion->done());
>     }
> 
>     return $completion;
> }
> 
> It seems to be catching all three failure modes that I've observed from
> my LDAP server.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bryan.
> 
> 
> --
> Bryan Thale
> Motorola Labs, Networking and Infrastructure Research
> mailto:th...@rs...
> 
> 
>