freebsd man page for gss_release_buffer

GSS_RELEASE_BUFFER(3)						Programmer's Manual					     GSS_RELEASE_BUFFER(3)

NAME
     gss_release_buffer -- Discard a buffer

SYNOPSIS
     #include <gssapi/gssapi.h>

     OM_uint32
     gss_release_buffer(OM_uint32 *minor_status, gss_buffer_t buffer);

DESCRIPTION
     Free storage associated with a buffer.  The storage must have been allocated by a GSS-API routine.  In addition to freeing the associated
     storage, the routine will zero the length field in the descriptor to which the buffer parameter refers, and implementations are encouraged to
     additionally set the pointer field in the descriptor to NULL.  Any buffer object returned by a GSS-API routine may be passed to
     gss_release_buffer() (even if there is no storage associated with the buffer).

PARAMETERS
     minor_status  Mechanism specific status code.

     buffer	   The storage associated with the buffer will be deleted.  The gss_buffer_desc object will not be freed, but its length field
		   will be zeroed.

RETURN VALUES
     GSS_S_COMPLETE  Successful completion

STANDARDS
     RFC 2743  Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2, Update 1

     RFC 2744  Generic Security Service API Version 2 : C-bindings

HISTORY
     The gss_release_buffer function first appeared in FreeBSD 7.0.

AUTHORS
     John Wray, Iris Associates

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