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| author | Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@thkukuk.de> | 2008-11-29 07:28:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@thkukuk.de> | 2008-11-29 07:28:44 +0000 |
| commit | 45077949c9aa2aa05ba190738ae8616c1ec16950 (patch) | |
| tree | d1e751c17da8828c2e96b3d5de77764db63b2c16 /doc/man | |
| parent | 4a67d64dd0cb01c40e675f48f0c6ea3d08e53664 (diff) | |
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Purpose of commit: bugfix
Commit summary:
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2008-11-29 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@thkukuk.de>
* doc/man/pam_getenv.3.xml: Document that application should
not free return value.
* doc/man/pam.3.xml: Add Note about thread-safeness of libpam
functions.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man/pam.3.xml | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man/pam_getenv.3.xml | 5 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man/pam.3.xml b/doc/man/pam.3.xml index 3cf71b2d..78e1cf3e 100644 --- a/doc/man/pam.3.xml +++ b/doc/man/pam.3.xml @@ -430,4 +430,10 @@ </citerefentry> </para> </refsect1> + <refsect1 id='pam3-notes'><title>NOTES</title> + <para> + The <emphasis>libpam</emphasis> interfaces are only thread-safe if each + thread within the multithreaded application uses its own PAM handle. + </para> + </refsect1> </refentry> diff --git a/doc/man/pam_getenv.3.xml b/doc/man/pam_getenv.3.xml index 871e511d..7e8db015 100644 --- a/doc/man/pam_getenv.3.xml +++ b/doc/man/pam_getenv.3.xml @@ -33,8 +33,9 @@ The <function>pam_getenv</function> function searches the PAM environment list as associated with the handle <emphasis>pamh</emphasis> for an item that matches the string - pointed to by <emphasis>name</emphasis> and returns the value - of the environment variable. + pointed to by <emphasis>name</emphasis> and returns a pointer + to the value of the environment variable. The application is + not allowed to free the data. </para> </refsect1> |