Use Appropriate Return Codes

In general, return 0 from your plug-in functions when they complete successfully. For some functions that search for matches, 0 means a successful match, and -1 means that no match is found. For preoperation functions, 0 means that Directory Server should continue processing the operation. When you want the server to stop processing the operation after your preoperation function completes, return a positive value such as 1.

When plug-in functions do not complete successfully, send a result to the client if appropriate, log an error message, and return a non-zero value, such as the LDAP result code from install-path/include/ldap-standard.h, for example.