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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:40:15 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:40:15 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 6.05.01.upstream/6.05.01
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diff --git a/man3/fgetgrent.3 b/man3/fgetgrent.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..71926a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/fgetgrent.3 @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk) +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" Linux libc source code +.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991) +.\" 386BSD man pages +.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 19:38:44 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.TH fgetgrent 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +fgetgrent \- get group file entry +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <stdio.h> +.B #include <sys/types.h> +.B #include <grp.h> +.PP +.BI "struct group *fgetgrent(FILE *" stream ); +.fi +.PP +.RS -4 +Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see +.BR feature_test_macros (7)): +.RE +.PP +.BR fgetgrent (): +.nf + Since glibc 2.19: + _DEFAULT_SOURCE + glibc 2.19 and earlier: + _SVID_SOURCE +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR fgetgrent () +function returns a pointer to a structure containing +the group information from the file referred to by +.IR stream . +The first time it is called +it returns the first entry; thereafter, it returns successive entries. +The file referred to by +.I stream +must have the same format as +.I /etc/group +(see +.BR group (5)). +.PP +The \fIgroup\fP structure is defined in \fI<grp.h>\fP as follows: +.PP +.in +4n +.EX +struct group { + char *gr_name; /* group name */ + char *gr_passwd; /* group password */ + gid_t gr_gid; /* group ID */ + char **gr_mem; /* NULL\-terminated array of pointers + to names of group members */ +}; +.EE +.in +.SH RETURN VALUE +The +.BR fgetgrent () +function returns a pointer to a +.I group +structure, +or NULL if there are no more entries or an error occurs. +In the event of an error, +.I errno +is set to indicate the error. +.SH ERRORS +.TP +.B ENOMEM +Insufficient memory to allocate +.I group +structure. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR fgetgrent () +T} Thread safety MT-Unsafe race:fgetgrent +.TE +.sp 1 +.\" FIXME The marking is different from that in the glibc manual, +.\" which has: +.\" +.\" fgetgrent: MT-Unsafe race:fgrent +.\" +.\" We think race:fgrent in glibc may be hard for users to understand, +.\" and have sent a patch to the GNU libc community for changing it to +.\" race:fgetgrent, however, something about the copyright impeded the +.\" progress. +.SH STANDARDS +None. +.SH HISTORY +SVr4. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR endgrent (3), +.BR fgetgrent_r (3), +.BR fopen (3), +.BR getgrent (3), +.BR getgrgid (3), +.BR getgrnam (3), +.BR putgrent (3), +.BR setgrent (3), +.BR group (5) |