NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | CONFORMING TO | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

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

NAME         top

       putgrent - write a group database entry to a file

SYNOPSIS         top

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

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

DESCRIPTION         top

       The putgrent() function is the counterpart for fgetgrent(3).  The function
       writes the content of the provided struct group into the file pointed to by
       fp.  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         top

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

CONFORMING TO         top

       This function is a GNU extension.

SEE ALSO         top

       fgetgrent(3), getgrent(3), group(5)

COLOPHON         top

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GNU                                   2003-09-09                          PUTGRENT(3)

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