From 705fa4565510a8178e05459fe957b7eb3adacfb2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kurt Zeilenga Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:45:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] note that a search is often the first operation requested. --- doc/man/man3/ldap.3 | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/man/man3/ldap.3 b/doc/man/man3/ldap.3 index 9e85767a00..94604d5ebe 100644 --- a/doc/man/man3/ldap.3 +++ b/doc/man/man3/ldap.3 @@ -39,16 +39,21 @@ created using and set the protocol version to 3 by calling .BR ldap_set_option (3). The underlying session is established first operation is -issued. This would generally be a Start TLS or Bind operation. +issued. This would generally be a Start TLS or Bind operation, +or a Search operation to read attributes of the Root DSE. A Start TLS operation is performed by calling .BR ldap_start_tls_s (3). A LDAP bind operation is performed by calling .BR ldap_sasl_bind (3) -or one of its friends. Subsequently, other operations are performed +or one of its friends. +A Search operation is performed by calling ldap_search_ext_s(3) +or one of its friends. + +Subsequently, additional operations are performed by calling one of the synchronous or asynchronous routines (e.g., -.BR ldap_search_ext_s (3) +.BR ldap_compare_ext_s (3) or -.BR ldap_search_ext (3) +.BR ldap_compare_ext (3) followed by .BR ldap_result (3)). Results returned from these routines are interpreted by calling the -- 2.39.5