FGETGRENT

FGETGRENT

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION RETURN VALUE ERRORS CONFORMING TO SEE ALSO

NAME

fgetgrent - get group file entry

SYNOPSIS

#include stream);

DESCRIPTION

The fgetgrent() function returns a pointer to a structure containing the group information from the file stream. The first time it is called it returns the first entry; thereafter, it returns successive entries. The file stream must have the same format as /etc/group.

The group structure is defined in as follows:

struct group { char gr_name; / group name / char gr_passwd; / group password / gid_t gr_gid; / group id */ char **gr_mem; / group members */ };

RETURN VALUE

The fgetgrent() function returns the group information structure, or NULL if there are no more entries or an error occurs.

ERRORS

ENOMEM

Insufficient memory to allocate group information structure.

CONFORMING TO

SVID 3

SEE ALSO

getgrnam(3), getgrgid(3), getgrent(3), setgrent(3), endgrent(3)