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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000
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Merging upstream version 6.7.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 19:23:25 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.\" Modified Mon May 27 21:37:47 1996 by Martin Schulze (joey@linux.de)
.\"
-.TH getpw 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH getpw 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
getpw \- reconstruct password line entry
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Standard C library
.BR "#define _GNU_SOURCE" " /* See feature_test_macros(7) */"
.B #include <sys/types.h>
.B #include <pwd.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "[[deprecated]] int getpw(uid_t " uid ", char *" buf );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -30,15 +30,15 @@ The
function reconstructs the password line entry for
the given user ID \fIuid\fP in the buffer \fIbuf\fP.
The returned buffer contains a line of format
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
.B name:passwd:uid:gid:gecos:dir:shell
.EE
.in
-.PP
+.P
The \fIpasswd\fP structure is defined in \fI<pwd.h>\fP as follows:
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
struct passwd {
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ struct passwd {
};
.EE
.in
-.PP
+.P
For more information about the fields of this structure, see
.BR passwd (5).
.SH RETURN VALUE
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ The
function returns 0 on success; on error, it returns \-1, and
.I errno
is set to indicate the error.
-.PP
+.P
If
.I uid
is not found in the password database,
@@ -103,7 +103,6 @@ T{
.BR getpw ()
T} Thread safety MT-Safe locale
.TE
-.sp 1
.SH STANDARDS
None.
.SH HISTORY