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author | matz <matz@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e> | 1999-08-13 05:37:52 +0000 |
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committer | matz <matz@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e> | 1999-08-13 05:37:52 +0000 |
commit | 0a64817fb80016030c03518fb9459f63c11605ea (patch) | |
tree | 3ea2e607f9ea08c56830ef7b803cd259e3d67c7f /ext/etc/etc.txt | |
parent | 210367ec889f5910e270d6ea2c7ddb8a8d939e61 (diff) | |
download | ruby-0a64817fb80016030c03518fb9459f63c11605ea.tar.gz |
remove marshal/gtk/kconv
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@518 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
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diff --git a/ext/etc/etc.txt b/ext/etc/etc.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9801dc0e02 --- /dev/null +++ b/ext/etc/etc.txt @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +.\" etc.doc - -*- Indented-Text -*- created at: Fri Jul 14 00:47:15 JST 1995 + +** Etc(Module) + +The module to retrieve information under /etc directory. Available +only on UNIX platforms. All operations defined in this module are +module functions, so that you can include Etc module into your class. + +Module Function: + + getlogin + + returns login name of the user. It this fails, try getpwuid(). + + getpwnam(name) + + searches in /etc/passwd file (or equivalent database), and + returns password entry for the user. The return value is an + passwd structure, which has members described below. + + struct passwd + name # user name(string) + passwd # encrypted password(string) + uid # user ID(integer) + gid # group ID(integer) + gecos # gecos field(string) + dir # home directory(string) + shell # login shell(string) + # members below are optional + change # password change time(integer) + quota # quota value(integer) + age # password age(integer) + class # user access class(string) + comment # comment(string) + expire # account expiration time(integer) + end + + See getpwnam(3) for detail. + + getpwuid([uid]) + + returns passwd entry for the specified user id. If uid is + ommitted, use the value from getuid(). See getpwuid(3) for + detail. + + getgrgid(gid) + + searches in /etc/group file (or equivalent database), and + returns group entry for the group id. The return value is an + group structure, which has members described below. + + struct group + name # group name(string) + passwd # group password(string) + gid # group ID(integer) + mem # array of the group member names + end + + See getgrgid(3) for detail. + + getgrnam(name) + + returns the group entry for the specified name. The return + value is the group structure. See getgrnam(3) for detail. + + group + + iterates over all group entries. + + passwd + + iterates over all passwd entries. |