getservent_r(3) Library Functions Manual getservent_r(3) getservent_r, getservbyname_r, getservbyport_r - ( ) C (libc, -lc) #include int getservent_r(size_t size; struct servent *restrict result_buf, char buf[restrict size], size_t size, struct servent **restrict result); int getservbyname_r(size_t size; const char *restrict name, const char *restrict proto, struct servent *restrict result_buf, char buf[restrict size], size_t size, struct servent **restrict result); int getservbyport_r(size_t size; int port, const char *restrict proto, struct servent *restrict result_buf, char buf[restrict size], size_t size, struct servent **restrict result); glibc (. feature_test_macros(7)): getservent_r(), getservbyname_r(), getservbyport_r(): glibc 2.19: _DEFAULT_SOURCE glibc 2.19 : _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE getservent_r(), getservbyname_r() getservbyport_r() getservent(3), getservbyname(3) getservbyport(3), . servent . . servent , result_buf. The buf array is used to store the string fields pointed to by the returned servent structure. (The nonreentrant functions allocate these strings in static storage.) The size of this array is specified in size. If buf is too small, the call fails with the error ERANGE, and the caller must try again with a larger buffer. (A buffer of size 1024 bytes should be sufficient for most applications.) , *result result_buf; *result NULL. 0. . , (getservbyname_r(), getservbyport_r()) (getservent_r()) result NULL. ENOENT (getservent_r()) . ERANGE buf is too small. Try again with a larger buffer (and increased size). attributes(7). +----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ | | | | +----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ |getservent_r(), | | MT-Safe locale | |getservbyname_r(), | | | |getservbyport_r() | | | +----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ , . GNU. The program below uses getservbyport_r() to retrieve the service record for the port and protocol named in its first command-line argument. If a third (integer) command-line argument is supplied, it is used as the initial value for size; if getservbyport_r() fails with the error ERANGE, the program retries with larger buffer sizes. The following shell session shows a couple of sample runs: $ ./a.out 7 tcp 1 ERANGE! Retrying with larger buffer getservbyport_r() returned: 0 (success) (size=87) s_name=echo; s_proto=tcp; s_port=7; aliases= $ ./a.out 77777 tcp getservbyport_r() returned: 0 (success) (size=1024) Call failed/record not found #define _GNU_SOURCE #include #include #include #include #include #include #define MAX_BUF 10000 #define streq(...) (strcmp(__VA_ARGS__) == 0) int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int size, erange_cnt, port, s; struct servent result_buf; struct servent *result; char buf[MAX_BUF]; char *protop; if (argc < 3) { printf("Usage: %s port-num proto-name [size]\n", argv[0]); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } port = htons(atoi(argv[1])); protop = (streq(argv[2], "null") || streq(argv[2], "NULL")) ? NULL : argv[2]; size = 1024; if (argc > 3) size = atoi(argv[3]); if (size > MAX_BUF) { printf("Exceeded buffer limit (%d)\n", MAX_BUF); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } erange_cnt = 0; do { s = getservbyport_r(port, protop, &result_buf, buf, size, &result); if (s == ERANGE) { if (erange_cnt == 0) printf("ERANGE! Retrying with larger buffer\n"); erange_cnt++; /* Increment a byte at a time so we can see exactly what size buffer was required. */ size++; if (size > MAX_BUF) { printf("Exceeded buffer limit (%d)\n", MAX_BUF); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } } } while (s == ERANGE); printf("getservbyport_r() returned: %s (size=%d)\n", (s == 0) ? "0 (success)" : (s == ENOENT) ? "ENOENT" : strerror(s), size); if (s != 0 || result == NULL) { printf("Call failed/record not found\n"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } printf("s_name=%s; s_proto=%s; s_port=%d; aliases=", result_buf.s_name, result_buf.s_proto, ntohs(result_buf.s_port)); for (char **p = result_buf.s_aliases; *p != NULL; p++) printf("%s ", *p); printf("\n"); exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } getservent(3), services(5) () Azamat Hackimov , Dmitry Bolkhovskikh , Vladislav , Yuri Kozlov ; GNU (GNU General Public License - GPL, 3 ) , - . - , , () () () . Linux man-pages 6.18 22 2026 . getservent_r(3)