GETHOSTENT(3POSIX)

🎀 GETHOSTENT(3POSIX) 🎀

okay bestie, so this page lives in the POSIX Programmer's Manual — that's the 3POSIX part of the title, iykyk 💅

✨ PROLOG ✨

So here's the tea, bestie: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. But like… the Linux implementation of this interface may differ, okay?? So if you're on Linux you should lowkey go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the actual details of Linux behavior. Or — plot twist 🙈 — the interface might not even be implemented on Linux at all. it's giving "check before you commit" fr fr.

🌸 NAME 🌸

gethostent — network host database functions 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <netdb.h>

struct hostent *gethostent(void);

periodt. that's the whole vibe. 💖

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Bestie, this one's short and sweet: refer to endhostent(). that's it. that's the description. go read endhostent(), she has the lore 💜

🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

okay so legally speaking (not me being the responsible one for once 😭):

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 🫶 (she's the main character, no cap). 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 . (not me snitching on typos but like… somebody has to 💀)

that's the whole page bestie, slay ✨

IEEE/The Open Group — 2017 — GETHOSTENT(3POSIX) 🌸 bye babe, go read endhostent() 💜