1.\" -*- nroff -*- 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 2005 Doug Rabson 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 15.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 16.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 17.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 18.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 19.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 20.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 21.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 22.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 23.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 24.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 25.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 26.\" 27.\" $FreeBSD$ 28.\" 29.\" Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved. 30.\" 31.\" This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to 32.\" others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it 33.\" or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published 34.\" and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any 35.\" kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are 36.\" included on all such copies and derivative works. However, this 37.\" document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing 38.\" the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other 39.\" Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of 40.\" developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for 41.\" copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be 42.\" followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than 43.\" English. 44.\" 45.\" The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be 46.\" revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns. 47.\" 48.\" This document and the information contained herein is provided on an 49.\" "AS IS" basis and THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING 50.\" TASK FORCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING 51.\" BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION 52.\" HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 53.\" MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 54.\" 55.\" The following commands are required for all man pages. 56.Dd November 12, 2005 57.Os 58.Dt GSS_RELEASE_BUFFER 3 PRM 59.Sh NAME 60.Nm gss_release_buffer 61.Nd Discard a buffer 62.\" This next command is for sections 2 and 3 only. 63.\" .Sh LIBRARY 64.Sh SYNOPSIS 65.In "gssapi/gssapi.h" 66.Ft OM_uint32 67.Fo gss_release_buffer 68.Fa "OM_uint32 *minor_status" 69.Fa "gss_buffer_t buffer" 70.Fc 71.Sh DESCRIPTION 72Free storage associated with a buffer. 73The storage must have been allocated by a GSS-API routine. 74In addition to freeing the associated storage, 75the routine will zero the length field in the descriptor to which the 76buffer parameter refers, 77and implementations are encouraged to additionally set the pointer 78field in the descriptor to 79.Dv NULL . 80Any buffer object returned by a GSS-API routine may be passed to 81.Fn gss_release_buffer 82(even if there is no storage associated with the buffer). 83.Sh PARAMETERS 84.Bl -tag 85.It minor_status 86Mechanism specific status code. 87.It buffer 88The storage associated with the buffer will be deleted. 89The gss_buffer_desc object will not be freed, 90but its length field will be zeroed. 91.El 92.Sh RETURN VALUES 93.Bl -tag 94.It GSS_S_COMPLETE 95Successful completion 96.El 97.Sh STANDARDS 98.Bl -tag 99.It RFC 2743 100Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2, Update 1 101.It RFC 2744 102Generic Security Service API Version 2 : C-bindings 103.\" .Sh HISTORY 104.El 105.Sh HISTORY 106The 107.Nm 108manual page example first appeared in 109.Fx 7.0 . 110.Sh AUTHORS 111John Wray, Iris Associates 112