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1.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
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24.\"
25.\" References consulted:
26.\" Linux libc source code
27.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
28.\" 386BSD man pages
29.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 19:38:44 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
6f3c74a8 30.TH FGETGRENT 3 2015-12-05 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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31.SH NAME
32fgetgrent \- get group file entry
33.SH SYNOPSIS
34.nf
35.B #include <stdio.h>
36.B #include <sys/types.h>
37.B #include <grp.h>
38.sp
39.BI "struct group *fgetgrent(FILE *" stream );
40.fi
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41.sp
42.in -4n
43Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
44.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
45.in
46.sp
47.BR fgetgrent ():
48_SVID_SOURCE
fea681da 49.SH DESCRIPTION
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50The
51.BR fgetgrent ()
52function returns a pointer to a structure containing
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53the group information from the file referred to by
54.IR stream .
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55The first time it is called
56it returns the first entry; thereafter, it returns successive entries.
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57The file referred to by
58.I stream
59must have the same format as
60.I /etc/group
61(see
62.BR group (5)).
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63.PP
64The \fIgroup\fP structure is defined in \fI<grp.h>\fP as follows:
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fea681da 68struct group {
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69 char *gr_name; /* group name */
70 char *gr_passwd; /* group password */
71 gid_t gr_gid; /* group ID */
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72 char **gr_mem; /* NULL-terminated array of pointers
73 to names of group members */
fea681da 74};
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bd191423 76.in
47297adb 77.SH RETURN VALUE
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78The
79.BR fgetgrent ()
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80function returns a pointer to a
81.I group
82structure,
fea681da 83or NULL if there are no more entries or an error occurs.
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84In the event of an error,
85.I errno
86is set to indicate the cause.
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87.SH ERRORS
88.TP
89.B ENOMEM
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90Insufficient memory to allocate
91.I group
92structure.
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93.SH ATTRIBUTES
94For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
95.BR attributes (7).
96.TS
97allbox;
98lb lb lb
99l l l.
100Interface Attribute Value
101T{
102.BR fgetgrent ()
103.\" FIXME: the following marking is different from which in glibc manual,
104.\" marking in glibc manual is,
105.\" fgetgrent: MT-Unsafe race:fgrent
106.\" We think race:fgrent in glibc maybe hard for users to understand,
107.\" and have sent a patch to the GNU libc community for changing it to
108.\" race:fgetgrent, however, something about the copyright impeded the progress.
109T} Thread safety MT-Unsafe race:fgetgrent
110.TE
111
47297adb 112.SH CONFORMING TO
44a2c328 113SVr4.
47297adb 114.SH SEE ALSO
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115.BR endgrent (3),
116.BR fgetgrent_r (3),
fb3dcb4a 117.BR fopen (3),
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118.BR getgrent (3),
119.BR getgrgid (3),
120.BR getgrnam (3),
c9c3b6f3 121.BR putgrent (3),
fb3dcb4a 122.BR setgrent (3),
60e91186 123.BR group (5)