getgrent_r(3) Library Functions Manual getgrent_r(3) getgrent_r, fgetgrent_r - ( ) C (libc, -lc) #include int getgrent_r(size_t size; struct group *restrict gbuf, char buf[restrict size], size_t size, struct group **restrict gbufp); int fgetgrent_r(size_t size; FILE *restrict stream, struct group *restrict gbuf, char buf[restrict size], size_t size, struct group **restrict gbufp); glibc (. feature_test_macros(7)): getgrent_r(): _GNU_SOURCE fgetgrent_r(): glibc 2.19: _DEFAULT_SOURCE glibc 2.19 : _SVID_SOURCE getgrent_r() fgetgrent_r() getgrent(3) fgetgrent(3). , setgrent(3). stream. group : struct group { char *gr_name; /* */ char *gr_passwd; /* */ gid_t gr_gid; /* ID */ char **gr_mem; /* , , NULL */ }; group(5). The nonreentrant functions return a pointer to static storage, where this static storage contains further pointers to group name, password, and members. The reentrant functions described here return all of that in caller-provided buffers. First of all there is the buffer gbuf that can hold a struct group. And next the buffer buf of size size that can hold additional strings. The result of these functions, the struct group read from the stream, is stored in the provided buffer *gbuf, and a pointer to this struct group is returned in *gbufp. On success, these functions return 0 and *gbufp is a pointer to the struct group. On error, these functions return an error value and *gbufp is NULL. ENOENT . ERANGE . . attributes(7). +----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ | | | | +----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ |getgrent_r() | | MT-Unsafe race:grent | | | | locale | +----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ |fgetgrent_r() | | MT-Safe | +----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ In the above table, grent in race:grent signifies that if any of the functions setgrent(3), getgrent(3), endgrent(3), or getgrent_r() are used in parallel in different threads of a program, then data races could occur. Other systems use the prototype struct group *getgrent_r(struct group *grp, char buf[.size], int size); , , int getgrent_r(struct group *grp, char buf[.size], int size, FILE **gr_fp); GNU. , POSIX getpwnam_r(3). getgrent_r() , . #define _GNU_SOURCE #include #include #include #include #define BUFLEN 4096 int main(void) { struct group grp; struct group *grpp; char buf[BUFLEN]; int i; setgrent(); while (1) { i = getgrent_r(&grp, buf, sizeof(buf), &grpp); if (i) break; printf("%s (%jd):", grpp->gr_name, (intmax_t) grpp->gr_gid); for (size_t j = 0; ; j++) { if (grpp->gr_mem[j] == NULL) break; printf(" %s", grpp->gr_mem[j]); } printf("\n"); } endgrent(); exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } fgetgrent(3), getgrent(3), getgrgid(3), getgrnam(3), putgrent(3), group(5) () Azamat Hackimov , Dmitry Bolkhovskikh , Vladislav , Yuri Kozlov ; GNU (GNU General Public License - GPL, 3 ) , - . - , , () () () <>. Linux 6.17 8 2026 . getgrent_r(3)