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PUTGRENT

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2017-09-15
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NAME

putgrent - write a group database entry to a file

SYNOPSIS

#define _GNU_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */
#include <grp.h>

int putgrent(const struct group *grp, FILE *stream);

DESCRIPTION

The putgrent() function is the counterpart for fgetgrent(3). The function writes the content of the provided struct group into the stream. The list of group members must be NULL-terminated or NULL-initialized.

The struct group is defined as follows:

struct group {
    char   *gr_name;      /* group name */
    char   *gr_passwd;    /* group password */
    gid_t   gr_gid;       /* group ID */
    char  **gr_mem;       /* group members */ };

RETURN VALUE

The function returns zero on success, and a nonzero value on error.

ATTRIBUTES

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

Interface	Attribute	Value
putgrent()	Thread safety	MT-Safe

CONFORMING TO

This function is a GNU extension.

COLOPHON

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