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author | wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org> | 1994-08-07 18:36:12 +0000 |
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committer | wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org> | 1994-08-07 18:36:12 +0000 |
commit | ad3e7cd01dd88965992ef4f0a5d33ca2af3b2dce (patch) | |
tree | 8a5236154c2efeca93751cc9f2fed9b185835df0 /lib/libc/rpc/getrpcent.3 | |
parent | a4620e09c1a3b99b108eeb8ee9b8077dcc1896c3 (diff) | |
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Moving Sun RPC code into libc, part 1. Based on work done by a number of
people, including J.T. Conklin, Theo de Raadt, Paul Richards, and probably
someone else who's going to flame me as soon as they see this message.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/rpc/getrpcent.3')
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diff --git a/lib/libc/rpc/getrpcent.3 b/lib/libc/rpc/getrpcent.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f500c01 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/libc/rpc/getrpcent.3 @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ +.\" @(#)getrpcent.3n 2.2 88/08/02 4.0 RPCSRC; from 1.11 88/03/14 SMI +.TH GETRPCENT 3N "14 December 1987" +.SH NAME +getrpcent, getrpcbyname, getrpcbynumber \- get RPC entry +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.ft B +#include <netdb.h> +.LP +.ft B +struct rpcent *getrpcent(\|) +.LP +.ft B +struct rpcent *getrpcbyname(name) +char *name; +.LP +.ft B +struct rpcent *getrpcbynumber(number) +int number; +.LP +.ft B +setrpcent (stayopen) +int stayopen +.LP +.ft B +endrpcent (\|) +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +.LP +.BR getrpcent(\|) , +.BR getrpcbyname(\|) , +and +.B getrpcbynumber(\|) +each return a pointer to an object with the +following structure +containing the broken-out +fields of a line in the rpc program number data base, +.BR /etc/rpc . +.RS +.LP +.nf +.ft B +struct rpcent { + char *r_name; /* name of server for this rpc program */ + char **r_aliases; /* alias list */ + long r_number; /* rpc program number */ +}; +.ft R +.fi +.RE +.LP +The members of this structure are: +.RS +.PD 0 +.TP 20 +.B r_name +The name of the server for this rpc program. +.TP 20 +.B r_aliases +A zero terminated list of alternate names for the rpc program. +.TP 20 +.B r_number +The rpc program number for this service. +.PD +.RE +.LP +.B getrpcent(\|) +reads the next line of the file, opening the file if necessary. +.LP +.B getrpcent(\|) +opens and rewinds the file. If the +.I stayopen +flag is non-zero, +the net data base will not be closed after each call to +.B getrpcent(\|) +(either directly, or indirectly through one of +the other \*(lqgetrpc\*(rq calls). +.LP +.B endrpcent +closes the file. +.LP +.B getrpcbyname(\|) +and +.B getrpcbynumber(\|) +sequentially search from the beginning +of the file until a matching rpc program name or +program number is found, or until end-of-file is encountered. +.SH FILES +.PD 0 +.TP 20 +.B /etc/rpc +.PD +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR rpc (5), +.BR rpcinfo (8C), +.BR ypserv (8) +.SH DIAGNOSTICS +.LP +A +.SM NULL +pointer is returned on +.SM EOF +or error. +.SH BUGS +.LP +All information +is contained in a static area +so it must be copied if it is +to be saved. |