The following reply was made to PR docs/100196; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: [email protected] (dfilter service) To: [email protected] Cc: 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" <[email protected]> Reported by: Jamie Landeg Jones <[email protected]> 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. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
