Module Name: src
Committed By: joerg
Date: Fri Mar 19 18:26:14 UTC 2010
Modified Files:
src/dist/openpam/doc/man: pam_strerror.3
Log Message:
Apply the equivalent of r426 and r427 from openpam repository:
Fix doc: pam_strerror() ignores pamh.
Portability tip.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.5 -r1.6 src/dist/openpam/doc/man/pam_strerror.3
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Modified files:
Index: src/dist/openpam/doc/man/pam_strerror.3
diff -u src/dist/openpam/doc/man/pam_strerror.3:1.5 src/dist/openpam/doc/man/pam_strerror.3:1.6
--- src/dist/openpam/doc/man/pam_strerror.3:1.5 Sun Jan 27 01:22:58 2008
+++ src/dist/openpam/doc/man/pam_strerror.3 Fri Mar 19 18:26:14 2010
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: pam_strerror.3,v 1.5 2008/01/27 01:22:58 christos Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: pam_strerror.3,v 1.6 2010/03/19 18:26:14 joerg Exp $
.\"
.\"-
.\" Copyright (c) 2001-2003 Networks Associates Technology, Inc.
@@ -55,9 +55,15 @@
function returns a pointer to a string containing a
textual description of the error indicated by the
.Fa error_number
-argument, in the context of the PAM transaction described by the
-.Fa pamh
argument.
+The
+.Fa pamh
+argument is ignored.
+For compatibility with other implementations, it should be either a
+valid PAM handle returned by a previous call to
+.Fn pam_start ,
+or
+.Dv NULL .
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Nm
