The gss_create_empty_oid_set() function creates an object-identifier set containing no object identifiers to which members may be subsequently added using the gss_add_oid_set_member(3GSS) function. These functions can be used to construct sets of mechanism object identifiers for input to gss_acquire_cred(3GSS).

The parameter descriptions for gss_create_empty_oid_set() follow:

minor_status

Mechanism-specific status code

oid_set

Empty object identifier set. The function will allocate the gss_OID_set_desc object, which the application must free after use with a call to gss_release_oid_set(3GSS).

The gss_create_empty_oid_set() function may return the following status codes:

GSS_S_COMPLETE

Successful completion

GSS_S_FAILURE

The underlying mechanism detected an error for which no specific GSS status code is defined. The mechanism-specific status code reported by means of the minor_status parameter details the error condition.

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

gss_acquire_cred(3GSS), gss_add_oid_set_member(3GSS), gss_release_oid_set(3GSS), attributes(5)

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