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-'\" 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 19:37:37 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
-.\" Modified Mon May 27 22:40:48 1996 by Martin Schulze (joey@linux.de)
-.\"
-.TH fgetpwent 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
-.SH NAME
-fgetpwent \- get password file entry
-.SH LIBRARY
-Standard C library
-.RI ( libc ", " \-lc )
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.nf
-.B #include <stdio.h>
-.B #include <sys/types.h>
-.B #include <pwd.h>
-.P
-.BI "struct passwd *fgetpwent(FILE *" stream );
-.fi
-.P
-.RS -4
-Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
-.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
-.RE
-.P
-.BR fgetpwent ():
-.nf
- Since glibc 2.19:
- _DEFAULT_SOURCE
- glibc 2.19 and earlier:
- _SVID_SOURCE
-.fi
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-The
-.BR fgetpwent ()
-function returns a pointer to a structure containing
-the broken out fields of a line in the file \fIstream\fP.
-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/passwd
-(see
-.BR passwd (5)).
-.P
-The \fIpasswd\fP structure is defined in \fI<pwd.h>\fP as follows:
-.P
-.in +4n
-.EX
-struct passwd {
- char *pw_name; /* username */
- char *pw_passwd; /* user password */
- uid_t pw_uid; /* user ID */
- gid_t pw_gid; /* group ID */
- char *pw_gecos; /* real name */
- char *pw_dir; /* home directory */
- char *pw_shell; /* shell program */
-};
-.EE
-.in
-.SH RETURN VALUE
-The
-.BR fgetpwent ()
-function returns a pointer to a
-.I passwd
-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 passwd
-structure.
-.SH FILES
-.TP
-.I /etc/passwd
-password database file
-.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 fgetpwent ()
-T} Thread safety MT-Unsafe race:fgetpwent
-.TE
-.\" FIXME: The marking is different from that in the glibc manual,
-.\" which has:
-.\"
-.\" fgetpwent: MT-Unsafe race:fpwent
-.\"
-.\" We think race:fpwent in glibc maybe hard for users to understand,
-.\" and have sent a patch to the GNU libc community for changing it to
-.\" race:fgetpwent, however, something about the copyright impeded the
-.\" progress.
-.SH STANDARDS
-None.
-.SH HISTORY
-SVr4.
-.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR endpwent (3),
-.BR fgetpwent_r (3),
-.BR fopen (3),
-.BR getpw (3),
-.BR getpwent (3),
-.BR getpwnam (3),
-.BR getpwuid (3),
-.BR putpwent (3),
-.BR setpwent (3),
-.BR passwd (5)