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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/getprotoent.3 b/man3/getprotoent.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8aad2d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/getprotoent.3 @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +'\" 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 19:26:03 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.TH getprotoent 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +getprotoent, getprotobyname, getprotobynumber, setprotoent, +endprotoent \- get protocol entry +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <netdb.h> +.PP +.B struct protoent *getprotoent(void); +.PP +.BI "struct protoent *getprotobyname(const char *" name ); +.BI "struct protoent *getprotobynumber(int " proto ); +.PP +.BI "void setprotoent(int " stayopen ); +.B void endprotoent(void); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR getprotoent () +function reads the next entry from the protocols database (see +.BR protocols (5)) +and returns a +.I protoent +structure +containing the broken-out fields from the entry. +A connection is opened to the database if necessary. +.PP +The +.BR getprotobyname () +function returns a +.I protoent +structure +for the entry from the database +that matches the protocol name +.IR name . +A connection is opened to the database if necessary. +.PP +The +.BR getprotobynumber () +function returns a +.I protoent +structure +for the entry from the database +that matches the protocol number +.IR number . +A connection is opened to the database if necessary. +.PP +The +.BR setprotoent () +function opens a connection to the database, +and sets the next entry to the first entry. +If +.I stayopen +is nonzero, +then the connection to the database +will not be closed between calls to one of the +.BR getproto* () +functions. +.PP +The +.BR endprotoent () +function closes the connection to the database. +.PP +The +.I protoent +structure is defined in +.I <netdb.h> +as follows: +.PP +.in +4n +.EX +struct protoent { + char *p_name; /* official protocol name */ + char **p_aliases; /* alias list */ + int p_proto; /* protocol number */ +} +.EE +.in +.PP +The members of the +.I protoent +structure are: +.TP +.I p_name +The official name of the protocol. +.TP +.I p_aliases +A NULL-terminated list of alternative names for the protocol. +.TP +.I p_proto +The protocol number. +.SH RETURN VALUE +The +.BR getprotoent (), +.BR getprotobyname (), +and +.BR getprotobynumber () +functions return a pointer to a +statically allocated +.I protoent +structure, or a null pointer if an +error occurs or the end of the file is reached. +.SH FILES +.PD 0 +.TP +.I /etc/protocols +protocol database file +.PD +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lb lb lbx +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR getprotoent () +T} Thread safety T{ +.na +.nh +MT-Unsafe race:protoent +race:protoentbuf locale +T} +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR getprotobyname () +T} Thread safety T{ +.na +.nh +MT-Unsafe race:protobyname +locale +T} +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR getprotobynumber () +T} Thread safety T{ +.na +.nh +MT-Unsafe race:protobynumber +locale +T} +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR setprotoent (), +.BR endprotoent () +T} Thread safety T{ +.na +.nh +MT-Unsafe race:protoent +locale +T} +.TE +.sp 1 +In the above table, +.I protoent +in +.I race:protoent +signifies that if any of the functions +.BR setprotoent (), +.BR getprotoent (), +or +.BR endprotoent () +are used in parallel in different threads of a program, +then data races could occur. +.SH STANDARDS +POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR getnetent (3), +.BR getprotoent_r (3), +.BR getservent (3), +.BR protocols (5) |