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.\" The following commands are required for all man pages. 30.Dd January 26, 2010 31.Dt GSS_RELEASE_BUFFER 3 PRM 32.Os 33.Sh NAME 34.Nm gss_release_buffer 35.Nd Discard a buffer 36.\" This next command is for sections 2 and 3 only. 37.\" .Sh LIBRARY 38.Sh SYNOPSIS 39.In "gssapi/gssapi.h" 40.Ft OM_uint32 41.Fo gss_release_buffer 42.Fa "OM_uint32 *minor_status" 43.Fa "gss_buffer_t buffer" 44.Fc 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46Free storage associated with a buffer. 47The storage must have been allocated by a GSS-API routine. 48In addition to freeing the associated storage, 49the routine will zero the length field in the descriptor to which the 50buffer parameter refers, 51and implementations are encouraged to additionally set the pointer 52field in the descriptor to 53.Dv NULL . 54Any buffer object returned by a GSS-API routine may be passed to 55.Fn gss_release_buffer 56(even if there is no storage associated with the buffer). 57.Sh PARAMETERS 58.Bl -tag -width ".It minor_status" 59.It minor_status 60Mechanism specific status code. 61.It buffer 62The storage associated with the buffer will be deleted. 63The gss_buffer_desc object will not be freed, 64but its length field will be zeroed. 65.El 66.Sh RETURN VALUES 67.Bl -tag -width ".It GSS_S_COMPLETE" 68.It GSS_S_COMPLETE 69Successful completion 70.El 71.Sh STANDARDS 72.Bl -tag -width ".It RFC 2743" 73.It RFC 2743 74Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2, Update 1 75.It RFC 2744 76Generic Security Service API Version 2 : C-bindings 77.El 78.Sh HISTORY 79The 80.Nm 81function first appeared in 82.Fx 7.0 . 83.Sh AUTHORS 84John Wray, Iris Associates 85.Sh COPYRIGHT 86Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved. 87.Pp 88This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to 89others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it 90or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published 91and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any 92kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are 93included on all such copies and derivative works. However, this 94document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing 95the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other 96Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of 97developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for 98copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be 99followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than 100English. 101.Pp 102The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be 103revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns. 104.Pp 105This document and the information contained herein is provided on an 106"AS IS" basis and THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING 107TASK FORCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING 108BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION 109HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 110MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 111