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SLPSetProperty</h2>
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<h3>
Declaration</h3>
<tt>#include &lt;slp.h></tt>
<p><tt>void SLPSetProperty( const char* name,</tt>
<br><tt>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
const char* value )</tt>
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Description</h3>
This function is supposed to allow the caller to set SLP properties, but
it is impossible to implement this function along with <a href="SLPGetProperty.html">SLPGetProperty()</a>
in a way that is even remotely thread safe.&nbsp; Therefore,&nbsp; OpenSLP
completely ignores all calls made to <tt>SLPSetProperty() </tt>so that
<a href="SLPSetProperty.html">SLPGetProperty()</a>
can be used in threaded applications.
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Parameters</h3>
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<td NOSAVE><a NAME="name"></a><tt>name</tt></td>
<td NOSAVE>Pointer to the name of a net.slp property to set.&nbsp; See
<a href="/broken">OpenSLP
Users Guide</a> for a list of supported properties</td>
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<td><a NAME="value"></a><tt>value</tt></td>
<td>Pointer to the new string value.</td>
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Returns</h3>
None
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Status</h3>
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<td NOSAVE>OpenSLP 0.8.0</td>
<td NOSAVE>Not implemented.&nbsp; See Notes.</td>
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Notes</h3>
For some reason the SLP API writers decided to make SLPGetProperty() and
SLPSetProperty() calls impossible to implement in a thread safe manner.&nbsp;
For this reason OpenSLP only allows read only access to SLP properties.&nbsp;
Properties are read into static data structures when the process loads,
and never changed so at least SLPGetProperty() can be called from threaded
applications.
<p>Some discussions have taken place on the srvloc mailing list and it
looks like the SLP API will be revised to solve this problem.&nbsp; Until
this time OpenSLP will not implement SLPSetProperty().
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See Also</h3>
<a href="SLPGetProperty.html">SLPGetProperty()</a>,&nbsp; <a href="/broken">Open
SLP Users Guide</a>
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