HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 3 Library Functions A-M (vol 6)

getrpcent(3C) getrpcent(3C)

long 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 imple-

mentations 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