Manpages - getrpcent.3t

The

and

functions 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,

struct rpcent { char r_name; / name of server for this rpc program / char **r_aliases; / alias list / long r_number; / rpc program number */ };

The members of this structure are:

The name of the server for this rpc program.

A zero terminated list of alternate names for the rpc program.

The rpc program number for this service.

The

function reads the next line of the file, opening the file if necessary.

The

function opens and rewinds the file. If the

flag is non-zero, the net data base will not be closed after each call to

(either directly, or indirectly through one of the other

calls).

The

function closes the file.

The

and

functions 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.

These functions are part of libtirpc.

A

pointer is returned on

or error.

All information is contained in a static area so it must be copied if it is to be saved.