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ENDHOSTENT(3P) POSIX Programmer's Manual ENDHOSTENT(3P)
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux
implementation of this interface may differ (consult the
corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or
the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
endhostent, gethostent, sethostent — network host database functions
#include <netdb.h>
void endhostent(void);
struct hostent *gethostent(void);
void sethostent(int stayopen);
These functions shall retrieve information about hosts. This
information is considered to be stored in a database that can be
accessed sequentially or randomly. The implementation of this
database is unspecified.
Note: In many cases this database is implemented by the Domain
Name System, as documented in RFC 1034, RFC 1035, and
RFC 1886.
The sethostent() function shall open a connection to the database and
set the next entry for retrieval to the first entry in the database.
If the stayopen argument is non-zero, the connection shall not be
closed by a call to gethostent(), and the implementation may maintain
an open file descriptor.
The gethostent() function shall read the next entry in the database,
opening and closing a connection to the database as necessary.
Entries shall be returned in hostent structures.
The endhostent() function shall close the connection to the database,
releasing any open file descriptor.
These functions need not be thread-safe.
Upon successful completion, the gethostent() function shall return a
pointer to a hostent structure if the requested entry was found, and
a null pointer if the end of the database was reached or the
requested entry was not found.
The application shall not modify the structure to which the return
value points, nor any storage areas pointed to by pointers within the
structure. The returned pointer, and pointers within the structure,
might be invalidated or the structure or the storage areas might be
overwritten by a subsequent call to gethostent().
No errors are defined for endhostent(), gethostent(), and
sethostent().
The following sections are informative.
None.
None.
None.
None.
endservent(3p)
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, netdb.h(0p)
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from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information
Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open
Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the
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Pages that refer to this page: netdb.h(0p), endservent(3p), gethostent(3p), htonl(3p), inet_addr(3p), sethostent(3p)