The gss_duplicate_name() function creates an exact duplicate of the existing internal name src_name. The new dest_name will be independent of the src_name. The src_name and dest_name must both be released, and the release of one does not affect the validity of the other.

The parameter descriptions for gss_duplicate_name() follow:

minor_status

A mechanism-specific status code.

src_name

Internal name to be duplicated.

dest_name

The resultant copy of src_name. Storage associated with this name must be freed by the application after use with a call to gss_release_name(3GSS).

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

GSS_S_COMPLETE

Successful completion.

GSS_S_BAD_NAME

The src_name parameter was ill-formed.

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_release_name(3GSS), attributes(5)

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