SETPWENT(3POSIX)

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

okay bestie, real talk first 💖 this page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. That means the Linux version of this interface may be different — so if you're on Linux, go check the matching Linux manual page for the actual tea ☕. Or... it might not even be implemented on Linux at all 🙈. No cap, that's just how it is.

✨ NAME ✨

setpwent — the user database function 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <pwd.h>

void setpwent(void);

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so this one's a referral, not a full episode 👑 — go read endpwent() for the whole story. That's it. That's the description. iykyk 🫶

💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Some of this text is 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. 🏛️

fr fr, if this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard ever disagree? The original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. periodt. 👑

You can grab the original Standard online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html ✨

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IEEE/The Open Group · 2017 — and that's the whole vibe check, bestie, stan this man page, mwah 💖🎀🦋🌸💅🫶