protoent

Structure for holding information from the protocol database

Synopsis:

#include <netdb.h>

struct protoent {
     char * p_name;
     char ** p_aliases;
     int p_proto;
};

Description:

The protoent structure holds information from the network protocols database, /etc/protocols. The members of this structure are:

p_name

The name of the protocol.

p_aliases

A zero-terminated list of alternate names for the protocol.

p_proto

The protocol number.

Classification:

POSIX 1003.1g (draft)

See also:

endprotoent(), getprotobyname(), getprotobynumber(), getprotoent(), setprotoent()

/etc/protocols in the TCP/IP User's Guide