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27.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
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29.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 19:26:03 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
4b8c67d9 30.TH GETPROTOENT 3 2017-09-15 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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31.SH NAME
32getprotoent, getprotobyname, getprotobynumber, setprotoent,
33endprotoent \- get protocol entry
34.SH SYNOPSIS
35.nf
36.B #include <netdb.h>
68e4db0a 37.PP
fea681da 38.B struct protoent *getprotoent(void);
68e4db0a 39.PP
fea681da 40.BI "struct protoent *getprotobyname(const char *" name );
68e4db0a 41.PP
fea681da 42.BI "struct protoent *getprotobynumber(int " proto );
68e4db0a 43.PP
fea681da 44.BI "void setprotoent(int " stayopen );
68e4db0a 45.PP
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46.B void endprotoent(void);
47.fi
48.SH DESCRIPTION
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49The
50.BR getprotoent ()
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51function reads the next entry from the protocols database (see
52.BR protocols (5))
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53and returns a
54.I protoent
55structure
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56containing the broken-out fields from the entry.
57A connection is opened to the database if necessary.
fea681da 58.PP
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59The
60.BR getprotobyname ()
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61function returns a
62.I protoent
63structure
8dea53c5 64for the entry from the database
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65that matches the protocol name
66.IR name .
8dea53c5 67A connection is opened to the database if necessary.
fea681da 68.PP
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69The
70.BR getprotobynumber ()
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71function returns a
72.I protoent
73structure
8dea53c5 74for the entry from the database
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75that matches the protocol number
76.IR number .
8dea53c5 77A connection is opened to the database if necessary.
fea681da 78.PP
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79The
80.BR setprotoent ()
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81function opens a connection to the database,
82and sets the next entry to the first entry.
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83If
84.I stayopen
85is nonzero,
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86then the connection to the database
87will not be closed between calls to one of the
88.BR getproto* ()
89functions.
fea681da 90.PP
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91The
92.BR endprotoent ()
8dea53c5 93function closes the connection to the database.
fea681da 94.PP
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95The
96.I protoent
97structure is defined in
98.I <netdb.h>
99as follows:
51f5698d 100.PP
a08ea57c 101.in +4n
b8302363 102.EX
fea681da 103struct protoent {
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104 char *p_name; /* official protocol name */
105 char **p_aliases; /* alias list */
106 int p_proto; /* protocol number */
fea681da 107}
b8302363 108.EE
a08ea57c 109.in
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111The members of the
112.I protoent
113structure are:
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114.TP
115.I p_name
116The official name of the protocol.
117.TP
118.I p_aliases
8dea53c5 119A NULL-terminated list of alternative names for the protocol.
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120.TP
121.I p_proto
122The protocol number.
47297adb 123.SH RETURN VALUE
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124The
125.BR getprotoent (),
126.BR getprotobyname ()
127and
128.BR getprotobynumber ()
b5991a6e 129functions return a pointer to a
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130statically allocated
131.I protoent
b437fdd9 132structure, or a null pointer if an
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133error occurs or the end of the file is reached.
134.SH FILES
135.PD 0
136.TP
137.I /etc/protocols
138protocol database file
139.PD
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140.SH ATTRIBUTES
141For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
142.BR attributes (7).
143.TS
144allbox;
145lbw18 lb lbw28
146l l l.
147Interface Attribute Value
148T{
149.BR getprotoent ()
150T} Thread safety T{
151MT-Unsafe race:protoent
152.br
153race:protoentbuf locale
154T}
155T{
156.BR getprotobyname ()
157T} Thread safety T{
158MT-Unsafe race:protobyname
159.br
160locale
161T}
162T{
163.BR getprotobynumber ()
164T} Thread safety T{
165MT-Unsafe race:protobynumber
166.br
167locale
168T}
169T{
170.BR setprotoent (),
171.br
172.BR endprotoent ()
173T} Thread safety T{
174MT-Unsafe race:protoent
175.br
176locale
177T}
178.TE
847e0d88 179.sp 1
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180In the above table,
181.I protoent
182in
183.I race:protoent
184signifies that if any of the functions
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185.BR setprotoent (),
186.BR getprotoent (),
18813d7b 187or
bf7bc8b8 188.BR endprotoent ()
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189are used in parallel in different threads of a program,
190then data races could occur.
47297adb 191.SH CONFORMING TO
23755186 192POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, 4.3BSD.
47297adb 193.SH SEE ALSO
fea681da 194.BR getnetent (3),
a3aef2a2 195.BR getprotoent_r (3),
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196.BR getservent (3),
197.BR protocols (5)