Updated: April 19, 2023 |
Search for an entry in the user-information file
#include <utmp.h> struct utmp * getutid( struct utmp * id );
libc
Use the -l c option to qcc to link against this library. This library is usually included automatically.
The getutid() function searches forward from the current point in the utmp file until it finds a matching entry:
If getutid() reaches the end of the file without finding a match, the search fails.
A pointer to the utmp structure for the matching entry, or NULL if it couldn't be found.
Safety: | |
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Cancellation point | Yes |
Interrupt handler | No |
Signal handler | No |
Thread | No |
The most current entry is saved in a static structure. Copy it before making further accesses.
On each call to either getutid() or getutline(), the routine examines the static structure before performing more I/O. If the contents of the static structure match what it's searching for, the function looks no further. For this reason, to use getutline() to search for multiple occurrences, zero out the static area after each success, or getutline() will return the same structure over and over again.
There's one exception to the rule about emptying the structure before further reads are done: the implicit read done by pututline() (if it finds that it isn't already at the correct place in the file) doesn't hurt the contents of the static structure returned by the getutent(), getutid() or getutline() routines, if the user has just modified those contents and passed the pointer back to pututline().
These routines use buffered standard I/O for input, but pututline() uses an unbuffered nonstandard write to avoid race conditions between processes trying to modify the utmp and wtmp files.