centos man page for getrpcbynumber

GETRPCENT(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual						      GETRPCENT(3)

NAME
       getrpcent, getrpcbyname, getrpcbynumber, setrpcent, endrpcent - get RPC entry

SYNOPSIS
       #include <netdb.h>

       struct rpcent *getrpcent(void);

       struct rpcent *getrpcbyname(char *name);

       struct rpcent *getrpcbynumber(int number);

       void setrpcent(int stayopen);

       void endrpcent(void);

DESCRIPTION
       The  getrpcent(), getrpcbyname(), and getrpcbynumber() functions each return a pointer to an object with the following structure containing
       the broken-out fields of an entry in the RPC program number data base.

	   struct rpcent {
	       char  *r_name;	  /* name of server for this RPC program */
	       char **r_aliases;  /* alias list */
	       long   r_number;   /* RPC program number */
	   };

       The members of this structure are:

	   r_name      The name of the server for this RPC program.

	   r_aliases   A NULL-terminated list of alternate names for the RPC program.

	   r_number    The RPC program number for this service.

       The getrpcent() function reads the next entry from the database.  A connection is opened to the database if necessary.

       The setrpcent() function opens a connection to the database, and sets the next entry to the first entry.  If stayopen is nonzero, then  the
       connection to the database will not be closed between calls to one of the getrpc*() functions.

       The endrpcent() function closes the connection to the database.

       The  getrpcbyname()  and getrpcbynumber() functions sequentially search from the beginning of the file until a matching RPC program name or
       program number is found, or until end-of-file is encountered.

RETURN VALUE
       On success, getrpcent(), getrpcbyname(), and getrpcbynumber() return a pointer to a statically allocated rpcent structure.  A NULL  pointer
       is returned on EOF or error.

FILES
       /etc/rpc
	      RPC program number database.

CONFORMING TO
       Not in POSIX.1-2001.  Present on the BSDs, Solaris, and many other systems.

BUGS
       All information is contained in a static area so it must be copied if it is to be saved.

SEE ALSO
       getrpcent_r(3), rpc(5), rpcinfo(8), ypserv(8)

COLOPHON
       This  page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

								    2008-08-19							      GETRPCENT(3)