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:

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 connection 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 beginning 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 systems.

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/.