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 November 12, 2005 31.Os 32.Dt GSS_RELEASE_BUFFER 3 PRM 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 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 68.It GSS_S_COMPLETE 69Successful completion 70.El 71.Sh STANDARDS 72.Bl -tag 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.\" .Sh HISTORY 78.El 79.Sh HISTORY 80The 81.Nm 82manual page example first appeared in 83.Fx 7.0 . 84.Sh AUTHORS 85John Wray, Iris Associates 86.Sh COPYRIGHT 87Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved. 88.Pp 89This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to 90others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it 91or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published 92and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any 93kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are 94included on all such copies and derivative works. However, this 95document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing 96the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other 97Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of 98developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for 99copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be 100followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than 101English. 102.Pp 103The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be 104revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns. 105.Pp 106This document and the information contained herein is provided on an 107"AS IS" basis and THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING 108TASK FORCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING 109BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION 110HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 111MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 112