1 .\" Copyright 2003 Walter Harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
3 .\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPL_NOVERSION_ONELINE)
4 .\" Distributed under GPL
7 .TH PUTGRENT 3 2003-09-09 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
9 putgrent \- write a group database entry to a file
11 .BR "#define _GNU_SOURCE" " /* See feature_test_macros(7) */"
15 .BI "int putgrent(const struct group *" grp ", FILE *" fp );
19 function is the counterpart for
21 The function writes the content of the provided
26 The list of group members must be NULL-terminated or NULL-initialized.
30 is defined as follows:
35 char *gr_name; /* group name */
36 char *gr_passwd; /* group password */
37 gid_t gr_gid; /* group ID */
38 char **gr_mem; /* group members */
43 The function returns zero on success, and a nonzero value on error.
45 This function is a GNU extension.