krb5 commit: Clarify krb5_kt_resolve() API documentation

Greg Hudson ghudson at mit.edu
Tue Oct 25 11:39:06 EDT 2016


https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/5ab2dc42b3ae8e07f5cf7eb91b43e4f2ad338728
commit 5ab2dc42b3ae8e07f5cf7eb91b43e4f2ad338728
Author: Greg Hudson <ghudson at mit.edu>
Date:   Fri Oct 7 11:23:02 2016 -0400

    Clarify krb5_kt_resolve() API documentation
    
    Explicitly say to use krb5_kt_close() like we do for most other
    allocating API calls.  Note the default type.  Instead of saying "The
    key table is not opened," say that the keytab file for FILE keytabs is
    not opened by this call.
    
    ticket: 8508 (new)
    target_version: 1.14-next
    target_version: 1.15-next
    tags: pullup

 src/include/krb5/krb5.hin |   11 ++++++-----
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/include/krb5/krb5.hin b/src/include/krb5/krb5.hin
index 64b0d0f..4ed4d35 100644
--- a/src/include/krb5/krb5.hin
+++ b/src/include/krb5/krb5.hin
@@ -4213,13 +4213,14 @@ krb5_524_convert_creds(krb5_context context, krb5_creds *v5creds,
  * @param [out] ktid            Key table handle
  *
  * Resolve the key table name @a name and set @a ktid to a handle identifying
- * the key table.  The key table is not opened.
+ * the key table.  Use krb5_kt_close() to free @a ktid when it is no longer
+ * needed.
  *
- * @note @a name must be of the form @c type:residual, where @a type must be a
- * type known to the library and @a residual portion should be specific to the
- * particular keytab type.
+ * @a name must be of the form @c type:residual, where @a type must be a type
+ * known to the library and @a residual portion should be specific to the
+ * particular keytab type.  If no @a type is given, the default is @c FILE.
  *
- * @sa krb5_kt_close()
+ * If @a name is of type @c FILE, the keytab file is not opened by this call.
  *
  * @code
  *  Example: krb5_kt_resolve(context, "FILE:/tmp/filename", &ktid);


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