getrpcent.3c (2010 09)

getrpcent(3C) getrpcent(3C)

int r_number; /* rpc program number */

};

The functions getrpcbyname()

, and getrpcbynumber()

each return a pointer to a struct

rpcent if they successfully locate the requested entry; otherwise they return NULL.

The function

getrpcent() returns a pointer to a

struct rpcent if it successfully enumerates an

entry; otherwise it returns NULL, indicating the end of the enumeration.

WARNINGS

Programs that use the interfaces described in this manual page cannot be linked statically since the

implementations of these functions employ dynamic loading and linking of shared objects at run time.

AUTHOR

getrpcent() was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

FILES

/etc/rpc

/etc/nsswitch.conf