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Date:      Sun, 27 Oct 2013 04:59:18 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r257205 - head/lib/libutil
Message-ID:  <201310270459.r9R4xIQF006589@svn.freebsd.org>

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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@gmx.de>
  Reported by:	Jamie Landeg Jones <jamie.landeg.jones@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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