getusershell

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Version: 2007-07-26 (openSuse - 09/10/07)

Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)

NAME

getusershell, setusershell, endusershell - get legal user shells

SYNOPSIS


#include <unistd.h>



char *getusershell(void);



void setusershell(void);



void endusershell(void);

Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

getusershell(), setusershell(), endusershell(): _BSD_SOURCE || (_XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE < 500)

DESCRIPTION

The getusershell() function returns the next line from the file /etc/shells, opening the file if necessary. The line should contain the pathname of a valid user shell. If /etc/shells does not exist or is unreadable, getusershell() behaves as if /bin/sh and /bin/csh were listed in the file.

The setusershell() function rewinds /etc/shells.

The endusershell() function closes /etc/shells.

RETURN VALUE

The getusershell() function returns a NULL pointer on end-of-file.

FILES


/etc/shells

CONFORMING TO

4.3BSD

SEE ALSO

shells(5)