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1 | .\" Copyright 2003 Walter Harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de) |
2 | .\" Distributed under GPL | |
3 | .\" | |
4 | .TH PUTGRENT 3 2003-09-09 "GNU" "group Database Access" | |
5 | .SH NAME | |
6 | putgrent \- write a group database entry to a file | |
7 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
8 | .B #define _GNU_SOURCE | |
9 | .br | |
10 | .B #include <grp.h> | |
11 | .sp | |
12 | .BI "int putgrent(const struct group *" grp ", FILE *" fp ); | |
13 | .sp | |
14 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
15 | The | |
63aa9df0 | 16 | .BR putgrent () |
61f4934a | 17 | function is the counterpart for |
63aa9df0 | 18 | .BR fgetgrent (). |
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19 | The function writes the content of the provided struct group into the |
20 | file pointed to by | |
21 | .IR fp . | |
22 | The list of group members must be NULL terminated or NULL initialized. | |
23 | .sp | |
24 | The struct group is defined as follows: | |
25 | .sp | |
26 | .RS | |
27 | .nf | |
28 | struct group { | |
29 | char *gr_name; /* group name */ | |
30 | char *gr_passwd; /* group password */ | |
34c97781 | 31 | gid_t gr_gid; /* group ID */ |
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32 | char **gr_mem; /* group members */ |
33 | }; | |
34 | .fi | |
35 | .RE | |
36 | .SH "RETURN VALUE" | |
37 | The function returns zero on success, and a non-zero value on error. | |
38 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
39 | .BR fgetgrent (3), | |
40 | .BR getgrent (3), | |
41 | .BR group (5) |