From 4ad94864781f48b1a4b77f9cfb934622bf756ba1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 12:51:52 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 4.23.0. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- upstream/debian-unstable/man3/setaliasent.3 | 29 ++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) (limited to 'upstream/debian-unstable/man3/setaliasent.3') diff --git a/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/setaliasent.3 b/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/setaliasent.3 index 45fb5486..3f605ab3 100644 --- a/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/setaliasent.3 +++ b/upstream/debian-unstable/man3/setaliasent.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" .\" Polished a bit, added a little, aeb .\" -.TH setaliasent 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH setaliasent 3 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages 6.8" .SH NAME setaliasent, endaliasent, getaliasent, getaliasent_r, getaliasbyname, getaliasbyname_r \- read an alias entry @@ -15,16 +15,16 @@ Standard C library .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include -.PP +.P .B "void setaliasent(void);" .B "void endaliasent(void);" -.PP +.P .B "struct aliasent *getaliasent(void);" .BI "int getaliasent_r(struct aliasent *restrict " result , .BI " char " buffer "[restrict ." buflen "], \ size_t " buflen , .BI " struct aliasent **restrict " res ); -.PP +.P .BI "struct aliasent *getaliasbyname(const char *" name ); .BI "int getaliasbyname_r(const char *restrict " name , .BI " struct aliasent *restrict " result , @@ -38,48 +38,48 @@ is the aliases database, that contains mail aliases. (To find out which databases are supported, try .IR "getent \-\-help" .) Six functions are provided to access the aliases database. -.PP +.P The .BR getaliasent () function returns a pointer to a structure containing the group information from the aliases database. The first time it is called it returns the first entry; thereafter, it returns successive entries. -.PP +.P The .BR setaliasent () function rewinds the file pointer to the beginning of the aliases database. -.PP +.P The .BR endaliasent () function closes the aliases database. -.PP +.P .BR getaliasent_r () is the reentrant version of the previous function. The requested structure is stored via the first argument but the programmer needs to fill the other arguments also. Not providing enough space causes the function to fail. -.PP +.P The function .BR getaliasbyname () takes the name argument and searches the aliases database. The entry is returned as a pointer to a .IR "struct aliasent" . -.PP +.P .BR getaliasbyname_r () is the reentrant version of the previous function. The requested structure is stored via the second argument but the programmer needs to fill the other arguments also. Not providing enough space causes the function to fail. -.PP +.P The .I "struct aliasent" is defined in .IR : -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX struct aliasent { @@ -125,12 +125,11 @@ T{ .BR getaliasbyname () T} Thread safety MT-Unsafe .TE -.sp 1 .SH STANDARDS GNU. .SH HISTORY The NeXT system has similar routines: -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX #include @@ -145,7 +144,7 @@ alias_ent *alias_getbyname(char *name); The following example compiles with .IR "gcc example.c \-o example" . It will dump all names in the alias database. -.PP +.P .\" SRC BEGIN (setaliasent.c) .EX #include -- cgit v1.2.3