.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B ldap_abandon_ext()
-routine is used to abandon or cancel an LDAP
+routine is used to send a abandon request for 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_ext (3),
.BR ldap_abandon_ext ()
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.
+it sends an LDAP abandon request to the LDAP server.
.LP
The caller can expect that the result of an abandoned operation
will not be returned from a future call to