getpwent_r - Online Linux Manual PageSection : 3
Updated : 2023-02-05
Source : Linux man-pages 6.03
NAMEgetpwent_r, fgetpwent_r − get passwd file entry reentrantly
LIBRARYStandard C library (libc, −lc)
SYNOPSIS#include <pwd.h>int getpwent_r(struct passwd *restrict pwbuf,
char buf[restrict .buflen], size_t buflen,
struct passwd **restrict pwbufp);
int fgetpwent_r(FILE *restrict stream, struct passwd *restrict pwbuf,
char buf[restrict .buflen], size_t buflen,
struct passwd **restrict pwbufp);Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): getpwent_r(), Since glibc 2.19:
_DEFAULT_SOURCE
glibc 2.19 and earlier:
_BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCEfgetpwent_r(): Since glibc 2.19:
_DEFAULT_SOURCE
glibc 2.19 and earlier:
_SVID_SOURCE
DESCRIPTIONThe functions getpwent_r() and fgetpwent_r() are the reentrant versions of getpwent(3) and fgetpwent(3). The former reads the next passwd entry from the stream initialized by setpwent(3). The latter reads the next passwd entry from stream. The passwd structure is defined in <pwd.h> as follows: struct passwd {
char *pw_name; /* username */
char *pw_passwd; /* user password */
uid_t pw_uid; /* user ID */
gid_t pw_gid; /* group ID */
char *pw_gecos; /* user information */
char *pw_dir; /* home directory */
char *pw_shell; /* shell program */
};For more information about the fields of this structure, see passwd(5). The nonreentrant functions return a pointer to static storage, where this static storage contains further pointers to user name, password, gecos field, home directory and shell. The reentrant functions described here return all of that in caller-provided buffers. First of all there is the buffer pwbuf that can hold a struct passwd. And next the buffer buf of size buflen that can hold additional strings. The result of these functions, the struct passwd read from the stream, is stored in the provided buffer *pwbuf, and a pointer to this struct passwd is returned in *pwbufp.
RETURN VALUEOn success, these functions return 0 and *pwbufp is a pointer to the struct passwd. On error, these functions return an error value and *pwbufp is NULL.
ERRORSENOENT No more entries. ERANGE Insufficient buffer space supplied. Try again with larger buffer.
ATTRIBUTESFor an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7). InterfaceAttributeValue getpwent_r() Thread safety MT-Unsafe race:pwent locale fgetpwent_r() Thread safetyMT-Safe In the above table, pwent in race:pwent signifies that if any of the functions setpwent(), getpwent(), endpwent(), or getpwent_r() are used in parallel in different threads of a program, then data races could occur.
STANDARDSThese functions are GNU extensions, done in a style resembling the POSIX version of functions like getpwnam_r(3). Other systems use the prototype struct passwd *
getpwent_r(struct passwd *pwd, char *buf, int buflen);or, better, int
getpwent_r(struct passwd *pwd, char *buf, int buflen,
FILE **pw_fp);
NOTESThe function getpwent_r() is not really reentrant since it shares the reading position in the stream with all other threads.
EXAMPLES #define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <pwd.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define BUFLEN 4096
int
main(void)
{
struct passwd pw;
struct passwd *pwp;
char buf[BUFLEN];
int i;
setpwent();
while (1) {
i = getpwent_r(&pw, buf, sizeof(buf), &pwp);
if (i)
break;
printf("%s (%jd)\tHOME %s\tSHELL %s\n", pwp−>pw_name,
(intmax_t) pwp−>pw_uid, pwp−>pw_dir, pwp−>pw_shell);
}
endpwent();
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
SEE ALSOfgetpwent(3), getpw(3), getpwent(3), getpwnam(3), getpwuid(3), putpwent(3), passwd(5) 0
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