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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS 29.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 30.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 31.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 32.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 33.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 34.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 35.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 36.\" 37.Dd August 8, 2002 38.Dt UTIL 3 39.Os 40.Sh NAME 41.Nm util 42.Nd system utilities library 43.Sh LIBRARY 44.Lb libutil 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46The 47.Nm 48library is the system utilities library and contains various 49system-dependent utility routines used in a wide variety of system 50daemons. The abstracted functions are mostly related to pseudo-terminals 51and login accounting. These routines are 52.Nx Ns -specific 53and are not portable. Their use should be restricted. Declarations 54for these functions may be obtained from the include file 55.Pa \*[Lt]util.h\*[Gt] . 56.Sh LIST OF FUNCTIONS 57.sp 2 58.nf 59.ta \w'getmaxpartitions.3'u+2n +\w'get the maximum number of partitions allowed per disk'u 60\fIName/Page\fP \fIDescription\fP 61.ta \w'getmaxpartitions.3'u+2n +\w'get the maximum number of partitions allowed per disk'u+6nC 62.sp 5p 63forkpty.3 tty utility function 64fparseln.3 return the next logical line from a stream 65getbootfile.3 get the name of the booted kernel file 66getmaxpartitions.3 get the maximum number of partitions allowed per disk 67getrawpartition.3 get the system ``raw'' partition 68login.3 login utility function 69login_close.3 query login.conf database about a user class 70login_getcapbool.3 query login.conf database about a user class 71login_getcapnum.3 query login.conf database about a user class 72login_getcapsize.3 query login.conf database about a user class 73login_getcapstr.3 query login.conf database about a user class 74login_getcaptime.3 query login.conf database about a user class 75login_getclass.3 query login.conf database about a user class 76login_tty.3 tty utility function 77logout.3 login utility function 78logwtmp.3 login utility function 79opendisk.3 open a disk's ``raw'' partition 80openpty.3 tty utility function 81pidfile.3 write a daemon pid file 82pidlock.3 locks based on files containing PIDs 83pw_abort.3 passwd file update function 84pw_copy.3 utility function for interactive passwd file updates 85pw_edit.3 utility function for interactive passwd file updates 86pw_error.3 utility function for interactive passwd file updates 87pw_getconf.3 password encryption configuration access function 88pw_getprefix.3 passwd file update function 89pw_init.3 utility function for interactive passwd file updates 90pw_lock.3 passwd file update function 91pw_mkdb.3 passwd file update function 92pw_prompt.3 utility function for interactive passwd file updates 93pw_scan.3 utility function for interactive passwd file updates 94pw_setprefix.3 passwd file update function 95secure_path.3 determine if a file appears to be ``secure'' 96setclasscontext.3 query login.conf database about a user class 97setusercontext.3 query login.conf database about a user class 98ttyaction.3 ttyaction utility function 99ttylock.3 locks based on files containing PIDs 100ttymsg.3 ttymsg utility function 101ttyunlock.3 locks based on files containing PIDs 102.fi 103.Sh FILES 104.Bl -tag -width /usr/lib/libutil_p.a -compact 105.It Pa /usr/lib/libutil.a 106static util library 107.It Pa /usr/lib/libutil.so 108dynamic util library 109.It Pa /usr/lib/libutil_p.a 110static util library compiled for profiling 111.El 112