centos man page for if_freenameindex

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

NAME
       if_nameindex, if_freenameindex - get network interface names and indexes

SYNOPSIS
       #include <net/if.h>

       struct if_nameindex *if_nameindex(void);
       void if_freenameindex(struct if_nameindex *ptr);

DESCRIPTION
       The if_nameindex() function returns an array of if_nameindex structures, each containing information about one of the network interfaces on
       the local system.  The if_nameindex structure contains at least the following entries:

	       unsigned int if_index; /* Index of interface (1, 2, ...) */
	       char	   *if_name;  /* Null-terminated name ("eth0", etc.) */

       The if_index field contains the interface index.  The ifa_name field points to the null-terminated interface name.  The end of the array is
       indicated by entry with if_index set to zero and ifa_name set to NULL.

       The data structure returned by if_nameindex() is dynamically allocated and should be freed using if_freenameindex() when no longer needed.

RETURN VALUE
       On success, if_nameindex() returns pointer to the array; on error, a NULL pointer is returned, and errno is set appropriately.

ERRORS
       if_nameindex() may fail and set errno if:

       ENOBUFS
	      Insufficient resources available.

       if_nameindex()  may  also  fail for any of the errors specified for socket(2), bind(2), ioctl(2), getsockname(2), recvmsg(2), sendto(2), or
       malloc(3).

VERSIONS
       The if_nameindex() function first appeared in glibc 2.1, but before glibc 2.3.4, the implementation supported  only  interfaces	with  IPv4
       addresses.  Support of interfaces that don't have IPv4 addresses is available only on kernels that support netlink.

CONFORMING TO
       RFC 3493, POSIX.1-2001.

       This function first appeared in BSDi.

EXAMPLE
       The program below demonstrates the use of the functions described on this page.	An example of the output this program might produce is the
       following:
	   $ ./a.out
	   1: lo
	   2: wlan0
	   3: em1

   Program source
       #include <net/if.h>
       #include <stdio.h>
       #include <stdlib.h>
       #include <unistd.h>

       int
       main(int argc, char *argv[])
       {
	   struct if_nameindex *if_ni, *i;

	   if_ni = if_nameindex();
	   if (if_ni == NULL) {
	       perror("if_nameindex");
	       exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
	   }

	   for (i = if_ni; ! (i->if_index == 0 && i->if_name == NULL); i++)
	       printf("%u: %s
", i->if_index, i->if_name);

	   if_freenameindex(if_ni);

	   exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
       }

SEE ALSO
       getsockopt(2), setsockopt(2), getifaddrs(3), if_indextoname(3), if_nametoindex(3), ifconfig(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/.

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								    2012-11-21							   IF_NAMEINDEX(3)