Clarify getpw*_r() return value when entry isn't found.

Improve markup of various constants.
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lukem 2005-04-19 04:26:16 +00:00
parent 9830ed3053
commit f948a874e7
1 changed files with 19 additions and 8 deletions

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@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
.\" $NetBSD: getpwent.3,v 1.30 2005/04/04 18:26:19 wiz Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: getpwent.3,v 1.31 2005/04/19 04:26:16 lukem Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1988, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)getpwent.3 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
.\"
.Dd April 4, 2005
.Dd April 19, 2005
.Dt GETPWENT 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -134,7 +134,8 @@ act like their non re-entrant counterparts, updating the contents of
.Ar pw
and storing a pointer to that in
.Ar result ,
and returning 0.
and returning
.Dv 0 .
Storage used by
.Ar pw
is allocated from
@ -142,10 +143,18 @@ is allocated from
which is
.Ar buflen
bytes in size.
If an error occurs,
an error number will be returned and
If the requested entry cannot be found,
.Ar result
will point to null.
will point to
.Dv NULL
and
.Dv 0
will be returned.
If an error occurs,
a non-zero error number will be returned and
.Ar result
will point to
.Dv NULL .
Calling
.Fn getpwent_r
from multiple threads will result in each thread reading a disjoint portion
@ -199,7 +208,9 @@ The functions
and
.Fn getpwuid ,
return a valid pointer to a passwd structure on success
and a null pointer if end-of-file is reached or an error occurs.
and a
.Dv NULL .
pointer if the entry was not found or an error occurs.
The
.Fn setpassent
function returns 0 on failure and 1 on success.
@ -216,7 +227,7 @@ and
.Fn getpwent_r
return
.Dv 0
on success and non-zero on failure.
on success or entry not found and non-zero on failure.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /etc/master.passwd -compact
.It Pa /etc/pwd.db