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protoent

Structure for information from the protocol database

Synopsis:

#include <netdb.h>

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

Since:

BlackBerry 10.0.0

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 1003.1

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Last modified: 2014-06-24

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