servent
Structure for information from the services database
Synopsis:
#include <netdb.h> struct servent { char * s_name; char ** s_aliases; int s_port; char * s_proto; };
Description:
This structure is used to hold the broken-out fields of a line in the network services database, /etc/services. The members of this structure are:
- s_name
- The name of the service.
- s_aliases
- A zero-terminated list of alternate names for the service.
- s_port
- The port number that the service resides at. Port numbers are returned in network byte order.
- s_proto
- The name of the protocol to use when contacting the service.