setpwent(3)?

William Kucharski kucharsk at uts.amdahl.com
Sat May 13 14:28:12 AEST 1989


In article <3712 at rpi.edu> entropy at pawl.rpi.edu (Math Student from Hell) writes:
 >On our 4.2BSD system, the man page for the <pwd.h> functions lists a
 >function called 'setpwent'.  This is what it has to say:
 >What does this function do?  Is it really there, or is it a fib?

Setpwent() "rewinds" the password file so that you can search it multiple times.

 >Reply by email, please.

I tried; it bounced.
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