GETSERVBYNAME(3P)

💖 GETSERVBYNAME 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the POSIX Programmer's Manual — this is where the 3P in GETSERVBYNAME(3P) comes from, and it's a whole vibe. network services database functions incoming, let's go 🦋

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

Real talk first, bestie: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.

⚠️ Heads up — the Linux implementation of this interface may differ (so go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not even be implemented on Linux. Not every glow-up translates, iykyk. 💀

✨ NAME ✨

getservbyname, getservbyport, getservent — network services database functions 💅

That's the trio. Three icons. One mission. 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <netdb.h>

struct servent *getservbyname(const char *name, const char *proto);
struct servent *getservbyport(int port, const char *proto);
struct servent *getservent(void);

Look at those signatures, they're literally perfect, no notes. ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Not me about to explain this whole thing here… nope! Bestie, refer to endservent() — that's where the lore lives. Go read that one. 🫶

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Okay now the serious part, and I need you to pay attention because this is real:

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.

⚠️ In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document — it's the main character, periodt.

The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html ✨

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html 🙈

And that's the whole page, bestie — thank you for coming to my TED talk. 🌈

Signed, sealed, slayed: IEEE/The Open Group, 2017, on the GETSERVBYNAME(3P) page itself. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶