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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
.\" 386BSD man pages
.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 19:29:54 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
-.TH getgrent 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH getgrent 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
getgrent, setgrent, endgrent \- get group file entry
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -18,18 +18,18 @@ Standard C library
.nf
.B #include <sys/types.h>
.B #include <grp.h>
-.PP
+.P
.B struct group *getgrent(void);
-.PP
+.P
.B void setgrent(void);
.B void endgrent(void);
.fi
-.PP
+.P
.RS -4
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
.RE
-.PP
+.P
.BR setgrent ():
.nf
_XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
|| /* glibc >= 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
|| /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
.fi
-.PP
+.P
.BR getgrent (),
.BR endgrent ():
.nf
@@ -62,19 +62,19 @@ The first time
.BR getgrent ()
is called,
it returns the first entry; thereafter, it returns successive entries.
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR setgrent ()
function rewinds to the beginning
of the group database, to allow repeated scans.
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR endgrent ()
function is used to close the group database
after all processing has been performed.
-.PP
+.P
The \fIgroup\fP structure is defined in \fI<grp.h>\fP as follows:
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
struct group {
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ struct group {
};
.EE
.in
-.PP
+.P
For more information about the fields of this structure, see
.BR group (5).
.SH RETURN VALUE
@@ -96,14 +96,14 @@ function returns a pointer to a
.I group
structure,
or NULL if there are no more entries or an error occurs.
-.PP
+.P
Upon error,
.I errno
may be set.
If one wants to check
.I errno
after the call, it should be set to zero before the call.
-.PP
+.P
The return value may point to a static area, and may be overwritten
by subsequent calls to
.BR getgrent (),
@@ -180,8 +180,7 @@ T} Thread safety T{
MT-Unsafe race:grent locale
T}
.TE
-.sp 1
-.PP
+.P
In the above table,
.I grent
in