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.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
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.\" References consulted:
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.\" Linux libc source code
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.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
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.\" 386BSD man pages
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.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 19:38:44 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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.TH FGETGRENT 3 1993-04-04 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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fgetgrent \- get group file entry
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.B #include <stdio.h>
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.B #include <sys/types.h>
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.B #include <grp.h>
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.sp
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.BI "struct group *fgetgrent(FILE *" stream );
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The \fBfgetgrent()\fP function returns a pointer to a structure containing
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the group information from the file \fIstream\fP. The first time it is called
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it returns the first entry; thereafter, it returns successive entries. The
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file \fIstream\fP must have the same format as \fI/etc/group\fP.
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.PP
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The \fIgroup\fP structure is defined in \fI<grp.h>\fP as follows:
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.sp
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.RS
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.nf
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.ta 8n 16n 32n
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struct group {
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char *gr_name; /* group name */
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char *gr_passwd; /* group password */
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gid_t gr_gid; /* group id */
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char **gr_mem; /* group members */
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};
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.ta
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.fi
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.RE
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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The \fBfgetgrent()\fP function returns the group information structure,
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or NULL if there are no more entries or an error occurs.
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.SH ERRORS
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.TP
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.B ENOMEM
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Insufficient memory to allocate group information structure.
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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SVID 3
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR endgrent (3),
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.BR fgetgrent_r (3),
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.BR getgrent (3),
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.BR getgrgid (3),
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.BR getgrnam (3),
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.BR setgrent (3)
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