GETRPCENT(3) Linux Programmer s Manual GETRPCENT(3)

NAME getrpcent, getrpcbyname, getrpcbynumber, setrpcent, endrpcent - get RPC entry

SYNOPSIS #include <netdb.h>

struct rpcent *getrpcent(void);

struct rpcent *getrpcbyname(char *name);

struct rpcent *getrpcbynumber(int number);

void setrpcent(int stayopen);

void endrpcent(void);

DESCRIPTION getrpcent(), getrpcbyname(), and getrpcbynumber() each return a pointer to an object with the following structure containing the broken-out fields of an entry 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:

r_name The name of the server for this RPC program.

r_aliases A NULL-terminated list of alternate names for the RPC program.

r_number The RPC program number for this service.

getrpcent() reads the next entry from the database. A connection is opened to the database if necessary.

setrpcent() function opens a connection to the database, and sets the next entry to the first entry. If stayopen is non-zero, then the con- nection to the database will not be closed between calls to one of the getrpc*() functions.

The endrpcent() function closes the connection to the database.

getrpcbyname() and getrpcbynumber() sequentially search from the begin- ning of the file until a matching RPC program name or program number is found, or until end-of-file is encountered.

RETURN VALUE On success, getrpcent(), getrpcbyname(), and getrpcbynumber() return a pointer to a statically allocated rpcent structure. A NULL pointer is returned on EOF or error.

FILES /etc/rpc RPC program number database.

CONFORMING TO Not in POSIX.1-2001. Present on the BSDs, Solaris, and many other sys- tems.

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

SEE ALSO getrpcent_r(3), rpc(5), rpcinfo(8), ypserv(8)

COLOPHON This page is part of release 3.22 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

2008-08-19 GETRPCENT(3)