docs/100196: commit references a PR
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The following reply was made to PR docs/100196; it has been noted by GNATS.
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Subject: Re: docs/100196: commit references a PR
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 04:59:25 +0000 (UTC)
Author: eadler
Date: Sun Oct 27 04:59:18 2013
New Revision: 257205
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/257205
Log:
Mention in login.conf.5 which fields may be infinite and how to specifify infinity.
The number of ways to indicate this confuses people.
PR: docs/100196
Reported by: "Dr. Markus Waldeck" <waldeck at gmx.de>
Reported by: Jamie Landeg Jones <jamie.landeg.jones at gmail.com>
Modified:
head/lib/libutil/login.conf.5
Modified: head/lib/libutil/login.conf.5
==============================================================================
--- head/lib/libutil/login.conf.5 Sun Oct 27 04:49:40 2013 (r257204)
+++ head/lib/libutil/login.conf.5 Sun Oct 27 04:59:18 2013 (r257205)
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ tag being delimited from the value by '=
Whichever method is used, then all records in the database must use the
same method to allow values to be correctly overridden in interpolated
records.
+A numeric value may be infinite.
.It size
A number which expresses a size.
The default interpretation of a value is the number of bytes, but a
@@ -148,6 +149,7 @@ represents terabytes.
.El
A size value is a numeric quantity and case of the suffix is not significant.
Concatenated values are added together.
+A size value may be infinite.
.It time
A period of time, by default in seconds.
A prefix may specify a different unit:
@@ -168,8 +170,16 @@ the number of seconds.
Concatenated values are added together.
For example, 2 hours and 40 minutes may be written either as
9600s, 160m or 2h40m.
+A time value may be infinite.
.El
.Pp
+.Dq infinity ,
+.Dq inf ,
+.Dq unlimited ,
+.Dq unlimit,
+and -1
+are considered infinite values.
+.Pp
The usual convention to interpolate capability entries using the special
.Em tc=value
notation may be used.
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