sethostent() -- Sockets Function (libsocket)

Open and rewind file /etc/hosts
#include <netdb.h>
void sethostent(stayopen)
int stayopen;

The function sethostent() is one of a set of functions that interrogate the
file /etc/hosts  to look up information  about a remote host  on a network.
It opens and rewinds /etc/hosts.

Flag stayopen  indicates whether  /etc/hosts is to  stay open after  it has
been  interrogated by  gethostbyaddr() or gethostbyname():  if it  is zero,
then /etc/hosts is closed after it  is interrogated; if it is nonzero, then
/etc/hosts remains open.

See Also

endhostent(),
gethostbyaddr(),
gethostbyname(),
libsocket

© 2012 by Stephen A. Ness