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| author | Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> | 2023-04-20 13:11:28 +0100 |
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| committer | Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2023-04-20 14:10:06 +0100 |
| commit | 52c04fea33392a35ea291b2e1ff82c3992492e22 (patch) | |
| tree | fe5f28a9daba7b5124507cfb11846c1141ea9e70 | |
| parent | 0816a6524b2b1e2184bf95a5eac5e29645236d0e (diff) | |
| download | linux-pam-git-52c04fea33392a35ea291b2e1ff82c3992492e22.tar.gz | |
man: clarify PAM_DATA_SILENT in pam_set_data.3
pam_end.3 has additional and important information about PAM_DATA_SILENT,
copy it to pam_set_data.3 since that describes the cleanup callback where
it will be set.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man/pam_set_data.3.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man/pam_set_data.3.xml b/doc/man/pam_set_data.3.xml index 2bcfeb0b..f8c89883 100644 --- a/doc/man/pam_set_data.3.xml +++ b/doc/man/pam_set_data.3.xml @@ -113,7 +113,13 @@ <para> Which indicates that the process would prefer to perform the <function>cleanup()</function> quietly. That is, discourages - logging/messages to the user. + logging/messages to the user. It is generally used to indicate that + the current closing of the library is in a + <citerefentry> + <refentrytitle>fork</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum> + </citerefentry>ed + process, and that the parent will take care of cleaning up things + that exist outside of the current process space (files etc.). </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |