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The linux manual page states that getpw is declared via including
<pwd.h> - but I can't find the prototype in any header at all.
I guess getpw is a GNU extension, since I couldn't find any
documentation on it besides the man page.
Andreas
1999-06-30 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* pwd/pwd.h: Add getpw prototype declaration.
--- pwd/pwd.h.~1~ Wed Jun 23 21:04:30 1999
+++ pwd/pwd.h Wed Jun 30 07:24:12 1999
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1991, 92, 95, 96, 97, 98 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright (C) 1991, 92, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -135,6 +135,12 @@
#endif /* POSIX or reentrant */
+#ifdef __USE_GNU
+/* Re-construct the password-file line for the given uid
+ in the given buffer. This knows the format that the caller
+ will expect, but this need not be the format of the password file. */
+extern int getpw __P ((__uid_t __uid, char *__buffer));
+#endif
__END_DECLS
--
Andreas Jaeger aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de jaeger@informatik.uni-kl.de
for pgp-key finger ajaeger@aixd1.rhrk.uni-kl.de
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