From 7f3caba522f4d24764f29d83aa2de9198bb7f01c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 06:52:22 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 6.8. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- man3/getgrnam.3 | 260 -------------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 260 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 man3/getgrnam.3 (limited to 'man3/getgrnam.3') diff --git a/man3/getgrnam.3 b/man3/getgrnam.3 deleted file mode 100644 index fb53c6e..0000000 --- a/man3/getgrnam.3 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,260 +0,0 @@ -'\" 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 1993-07-24 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) -.\" Modified 2003-11-15 by aeb -.\" -.TH getgrnam 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" -.SH NAME -getgrnam, getgrnam_r, getgrgid, getgrgid_r \- get group file entry -.SH LIBRARY -Standard C library -.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) -.SH SYNOPSIS -.nf -.B #include -.B #include -.P -.BI "struct group *getgrnam(const char *" name ); -.BI "struct group *getgrgid(gid_t " gid ); -.P -.BI "int getgrnam_r(const char *restrict " name \ -", struct group *restrict " grp , -.BI " char " buf "[restrict ." buflen "], size_t " buflen , -.BI " struct group **restrict " result ); -.BI "int getgrgid_r(gid_t " gid ", struct group *restrict " grp , -.BI " char " buf "[restrict ." buflen "], size_t " buflen , -.BI " struct group **restrict " result ); -.fi -.P -.RS -4 -Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see -.BR feature_test_macros (7)): -.RE -.P -.BR getgrnam_r (), -.BR getgrgid_r (): -.nf - _POSIX_C_SOURCE - || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE -.fi -.SH DESCRIPTION -The -.BR getgrnam () -function returns a pointer to a structure containing -the broken-out fields of the record in the group database -(e.g., the local group file -.IR /etc/group , -NIS, and LDAP) -that matches the group name -.IR name . -.P -The -.BR getgrgid () -function returns a pointer to a structure containing -the broken-out fields of the record in the group database -that matches the group ID -.IR gid . -.P -The \fIgroup\fP structure is defined in \fI\fP as follows: -.P -.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 -.P -For more information about the fields of this structure, see -.BR group (5). -.P -The -.BR getgrnam_r () -and -.BR getgrgid_r () -functions obtain the same information as -.BR getgrnam () -and -.BR getgrgid (), -but store the retrieved -.I group -structure -in the space pointed to by -.IR grp . -The string fields pointed to by the members of the -.I group -structure are stored in the buffer -.I buf -of size -.IR buflen . -A pointer to the result (in case of success) or NULL (in case no entry -was found or an error occurred) is stored in -.IR *result . -.P -The call -.P -.in +4n -.EX -sysconf(_SC_GETGR_R_SIZE_MAX) -.EE -.in -.P -returns either \-1, without changing -.IR errno , -or an initial suggested size for -.IR buf . -(If this size is too small, -the call fails with -.BR ERANGE , -in which case the caller can retry with a larger buffer.) -.SH RETURN VALUE -The -.BR getgrnam () -and -.BR getgrgid () -functions return a pointer to a -.I group -structure, or NULL if the matching entry -is not found or an error occurs. -If an error occurs, -.I errno -is set to indicate the error. -If one wants to check -.I errno -after the call, it should be set to zero before the call. -.P -The return value may point to a static area, and may be overwritten -by subsequent calls to -.BR getgrent (3), -.BR getgrgid (), -or -.BR getgrnam (). -(Do not pass the returned pointer to -.BR free (3).) -.P -On success, -.BR getgrnam_r () -and -.BR getgrgid_r () -return zero, and set -.I *result -to -.IR grp . -If no matching group record was found, -these functions return 0 and store NULL in -.IR *result . -In case of error, an error number is returned, and NULL is stored in -.IR *result . -.SH ERRORS -.TP -.BR 0 " or " ENOENT " or " ESRCH " or " EBADF " or " EPERM " or ..." -The given -.I name -or -.I gid -was not found. -.TP -.B EINTR -A signal was caught; see -.BR signal (7). -.TP -.B EIO -I/O error. -.TP -.B EMFILE -The per-process limit on the number of open file descriptors has been reached. -.TP -.B ENFILE -The system-wide limit on the total number of open files has been reached. -.TP -.B ENOMEM -.\" not in POSIX -Insufficient memory to allocate -.I group -structure. -.\" to allocate the group structure, or to allocate buffers -.TP -.B ERANGE -Insufficient buffer space supplied. -.SH FILES -.TP -.I /etc/group -local group database file -.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 getgrnam () -T} Thread safety T{ -.na -.nh -MT-Unsafe race:grnam locale -T} -T{ -.na -.nh -.BR getgrgid () -T} Thread safety T{ -.na -.nh -MT-Unsafe race:grgid locale -T} -T{ -.na -.nh -.BR getgrnam_r (), -.BR getgrgid_r () -T} Thread safety MT-Safe locale -.TE -.SH VERSIONS -The formulation given above under "RETURN VALUE" is from POSIX.1. -.\" POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008 -It does not call "not found" an error, hence does not specify what value -.I errno -might have in this situation. -But that makes it impossible to recognize -errors. -One might argue that according to POSIX -.I errno -should be left unchanged if an entry is not found. -Experiments on various -UNIX-like systems show that lots of different values occur in this -situation: 0, ENOENT, EBADF, ESRCH, EWOULDBLOCK, EPERM, and probably others. -.\" more precisely: -.\" AIX 5.1 - gives ESRCH -.\" OSF1 4.0g - gives EWOULDBLOCK -.\" libc, glibc up to glibc 2.6, Irix 6.5 - give ENOENT -.\" since glibc 2.7 - give 0 -.\" FreeBSD 4.8, OpenBSD 3.2, NetBSD 1.6 - give EPERM -.\" SunOS 5.8 - gives EBADF -.\" Tru64 5.1b, HP-UX-11i, SunOS 5.7 - give 0 -.SH STANDARDS -POSIX.1-2008. -.SH HISTORY -POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD. -.SH SEE ALSO -.BR endgrent (3), -.BR fgetgrent (3), -.BR getgrent (3), -.BR getpwnam (3), -.BR setgrent (3), -.BR group (5) -- cgit v1.2.3