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.\" The following commands are required for all man pages. 28.Dd January 26, 2010 29.Dt GSS_RELEASE_BUFFER 3 PRM 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm gss_release_buffer 33.Nd Discard a buffer 34.\" This next command is for sections 2 and 3 only. 35.\" .Sh LIBRARY 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.In "gssapi/gssapi.h" 38.Ft OM_uint32 39.Fo gss_release_buffer 40.Fa "OM_uint32 *minor_status" 41.Fa "gss_buffer_t buffer" 42.Fc 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44Free storage associated with a buffer. 45The storage must have been allocated by a GSS-API routine. 46In addition to freeing the associated storage, 47the routine will zero the length field in the descriptor to which the 48buffer parameter refers, 49and implementations are encouraged to additionally set the pointer 50field in the descriptor to 51.Dv NULL . 52Any buffer object returned by a GSS-API routine may be passed to 53.Fn gss_release_buffer 54(even if there is no storage associated with the buffer). 55.Sh PARAMETERS 56.Bl -tag -width ".It minor_status" 57.It minor_status 58Mechanism specific status code. 59.It buffer 60The storage associated with the buffer will be deleted. 61The gss_buffer_desc object will not be freed, 62but its length field will be zeroed. 63.El 64.Sh RETURN VALUES 65.Bl -tag -width ".It GSS_S_COMPLETE" 66.It GSS_S_COMPLETE 67Successful completion 68.El 69.Sh STANDARDS 70.Bl -tag -width ".It RFC 2743" 71.It RFC 2743 72Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2, Update 1 73.It RFC 2744 74Generic Security Service API Version 2 : C-bindings 75.El 76.Sh HISTORY 77The 78.Nm 79function first appeared in 80.Fx 7.0 . 81.Sh AUTHORS 82John Wray, Iris Associates 83.Sh COPYRIGHT 84Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved. 85.Pp 86This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to 87others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it 88or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published 89and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any 90kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are 91included on all such copies and derivative works. However, this 92document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing 93the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other 94Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of 95developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for 96copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be 97followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than 98English. 99.Pp 100The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be 101revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns. 102.Pp 103This document and the information contained herein is provided on an 104"AS IS" basis and THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING 105TASK FORCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING 106BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION 107HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 108MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 109