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6 This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux
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12 endservent, getservbyname, getservbyport, getservent, setservent - net‐
13 work services database functions
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16 #include <netdb.h>
17 void endservent(void);
19 struct servent *getservbyname(const char *name, const char *proto);
20 struct servent *getservbyport(int port, const char *proto);
21 struct servent *getservent(void);
22 void setservent(int stayopen);
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26 These functions shall retrieve information about network services.
27 This information is considered to be stored in a database that can be
28 accessed sequentially or randomly. The implementation of this database
29 is unspecified.
30 The setservent() function shall open a connection to the database, and
32 set the next entry to the first entry. If the stayopen argument is non-
33 zero, the net database shall not be closed after each call to the get‐
34 servent() function (either directly, or indirectly through one of the
35 other getserv*() functions), and the implementation may maintain an
36 open file descriptor for the database.
37 The getservent() function shall read the next entry of the database,
39 opening and closing a connection to the database as necessary.
40 The getservbyname() function shall search the database from the begin‐
42 ning and find the first entry for which the service name specified by
43 name matches the s_name member and the protocol name specified by proto
44 matches the s_proto member, opening and closing a connection to the
45 database as necessary. If proto is a null pointer, any value of the
46 s_proto member shall be matched.
47 The getservbyport() function shall search the database from the begin‐
49 ning and find the first entry for which the port specified by port
50 matches the s_port member and the protocol name specified by proto
51 matches the s_proto member, opening and closing a connection to the
52 database as necessary. If proto is a null pointer, any value of the
53 s_proto member shall be matched. The port argument shall be in network
54 byte order.
55 The getservbyname(), getservbyport(), and getservent() functions shall
57 each return a pointer to a servent structure, the members of which
58 shall contain the fields of an entry in the network services database.
59 The endservent() function shall close the database, releasing any open
61 file descriptor.
62 These functions need not be reentrant. A function that is not required
64 to be reentrant is not required to be thread-safe.
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67 Upon successful completion, getservbyname(), getservbyport(), and get‐
68 servent() return a pointer to a servent structure if the requested
69 entry was found, and a null pointer if the end of the database was
70 reached or the requested entry was not found. Otherwise, a null pointer
71 is returned.
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74 No errors are defined.
75 The following sections are informative.
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82 The port argument of getservbyport() need not be compatible with the
83 port values of all address families.
84 The getservbyname(), getservbyport(), and getservent() functions may
86 return pointers to static data, which may be overwritten by subsequent
87 calls to any of these functions.
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96 endhostent(), endprotoent(), htonl(), inet_addr(), the Base Definitions
97 volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, <netdb.h>
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100 Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
101 from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technology
102 -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
103 Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of
104 Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the
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106 The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard
107 is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online
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