| .\" Copyright 2003 Walter Harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de) |
| .\" Distributed under GPL |
| .\" |
| .TH PUTGRENT 3 2003-09-09 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
| .SH NAME |
| putgrent \- write a group database entry to a file |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B #define _GNU_SOURCE |
| .br |
| .B #include <grp.h> |
| .sp |
| .BI "int putgrent(const struct group *" grp ", FILE *" fp ); |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| The |
| .BR putgrent () |
| function is the counterpart for |
| .BR fgetgrent (3). |
| The function writes the content of the provided \fIstruct group\fP into the |
| file pointed to by |
| .IR fp . |
| The list of group members must be NULL terminated or NULL initialized. |
| .sp |
| The \fIstruct group\fP is defined as follows: |
| .sp |
| .in +4n |
| .nf |
| struct group { |
| char *gr_name; /* group name */ |
| char *gr_passwd; /* group password */ |
| gid_t gr_gid; /* group ID */ |
| char **gr_mem; /* group members */ |
| }; |
| .fi |
| .in |
| .SH "RETURN VALUE" |
| The function returns zero on success, and a non-zero value on error. |
| .SH "CONFORMING TO" |
| This function is a GNU extension. |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| .BR fgetgrent (3), |
| .BR getgrent (3), |
| .BR group (5), |
| .BR feature_test_macros (7) |
