SETPWENT(3P)

📦 version 2017a, in alpine 3.22, alpine 3.23, alpine 3.24, arch rolling, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

okay bestie, quick heads up before we dive in 💖 this page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (so like, go check the corresponding Linux manual page for the tea on Linux behavior), or honestly the interface may not even be implemented on Linux at all. no cap. 🙈

✨ NAME ✨

setpwent — user database function 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <pwd.h>

void setpwent(void);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

bestie, this one's a referral — go look at endpwent(). that's where the actual deets live. 🫶

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

ngl, 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 vibe, bestie — this page is from IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017, and it's the POSIX programmer's manual page for setpwent 💖✨ slay, you read the whole thing, iconic behavior fr fr 🎀🦋

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