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1 perry 1 GETGRNAM
2 !!!GETGRNAM
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 RETURN VALUE
7 ERRORS
8 FILES
9 CONFORMING TO
10 SEE ALSO
11 ----
12 !!NAME
13
14
15 getgrnam, getgrgid - get group file entry
16 !!SYNOPSIS
17
18
19 __#include
20 __''name''__);
21 struct group *getgrgid(gid_t__ ''gid''__);
22 __
23 !!DESCRIPTION
24
25
26 The __getgrnam()__ function returns a pointer to a
27 structure containing the group information from
28 ''/etc/group'' for the entry that matches the group name
29 ''name''.
30
31
32 The __getgrgid()__ function returns a pointer to a
33 structure containing the group information from
34 ''/etc/group'' for the entry that matches the group gid
35 ''gid''.
36
37
38 The ''group'' structure is defined in
39 '''' as follows:
40
41
42 struct group {
43 char *gr_name; /* group name */
44 char *gr_passwd; /* group password */
45 gid_t gr_gid; /* group id */
46 char **gr_mem; /* group members */
47 };
48 !!RETURN VALUE
49
50
51 The __getgrnam()__ and __getgrgid()__ functions return
52 the group information structure, or NULL if the matching
53 entry is not found or an error occurs.
54 !!ERRORS
55
56
57 __ENOMEM__
58
59
60 Insufficient memory to allocate group information
61 structure.
62 !!FILES
63
64
65 ''/etc/group''
66
67
68 Group database file
69 !!CONFORMING TO
70
71
72 SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3
73 !!SEE ALSO
74
75
76 fgetgrent(3), getgrent(3), setgrent(3),
77 endgrent(3)
78 ----
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