.TH LDAP_ABANDON 3 "22 September 1998" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
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.SH NAME
ldap_abandon \- Abandon an LDAP operation in progress
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.ft B
#include <ldap.h>
.LP
.ft B
int ldap_abandon(ld, msgid)
.ft
LDAP *ld;
int msgid;
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B ldap_abandon()
routine is used to abandon or cancel an LDAP
operation in progress.  The \fImsgid\fP passed should be the
message id of an outstanding LDAP operation, as returned by
.BR ldap_search (3),
.BR ldap_modify (3),
etc.
.LP
.BR ldap_abandon ()
checks to see if the result of the operation has already come in.  If it
has, it deletes it from the queue of pending messages.  If not,
it sends an LDAP abandon operation to the the LDAP server.
.LP
The caller can expect that the result of an abandoned operation
will not be returned from a future call to
.BR ldap_result (3).
.SH ERRORS
.B ldap_abandon()
returns 0 if everything goes ok, -1 otherwise,
setting \fIld_errno\fP appropriately. See
.BR ldap_error (3)
for details.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ldap(3),
.BR ldap_result(3),
.B ldap_error(3)
.SH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
.B	OpenLDAP
is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project (http://www.openldap.org/).
.B	OpenLDAP
is derived from University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.