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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