GETPWENT(3POSIX)

📦 version 2017a, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ GETPWENT 💅

okay bestie, so this one is from the POSIX Programmer's Manual — that's the 3POSIX situation in the header, iykyk. Buckle up, it's a short one but it's iconic.

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

Real talk before we even start: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so if you're on Linux, go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the actual Linux behavior, bestie. Orrrr it might just not be implemented on Linux at all. 🙈 Either way, vibe check your platform first.

👑 NAME 👑

getpwent — get user database entry

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <pwd.h>

struct passwd *getpwent(void);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so this is the part where I'd explain everything… but fr fr, you gotta refer to endpwent(). That's where the tea is. Go look there. ☕

Gonna be so for real with you, legal girlies, here's the whole thing verbatim because we do not play with licensing:

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 .

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 .

Okay that's the whole page, short and sweet, main character energy, no notes. ✨

Signing off with the official deets: this one's from IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017, and it lives at the very bottom of the page as GETPWENT(3POSIX). 💅🫶

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