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NAME
       hesiod_getservbyname, hesiod_free_servent - Hesiod functions for
       retrieving service information

SYNOPSIS
       #include <hesiod.h>

       struct servent *hesiod_getservbyname(void *context,
            const char *name, const char *proto)
       void hesiod_free_servent(void *context, struct servent *serv)

       cc file.c -lhesiod

DESCRIPTION
       This family of functions allows you to retrieve service to port
       mappings using Hesiod.  To perform lookups, you need an initialized
       Hesiod context; see hesiod(3) for details.  Information is returned in
       the same format as by getservbyname.  It is the caller's responsibility
       to call hesiod_free_servent with the returned service entry to free the
       resources used by the service entry.

       Hesiod queries for service information are made using the ``service''
       Hesiod type, using the service name as the Hesiod name.  The
       corresponding records should be space-separated lists of strings giving
       the service name, protocol, port number (in decimal), and zero or more
       aliases for the service.  There may be multiple records per service
       name; hesiod_getservbyname will pick the first one whose protocol
       matches proto.

RETURN VALUES
       On failure, hesiod_getservbyname returns NULL and sets the global
       variable errno to indicate the error.

ERRORS
       hesiod_getservbyname may fail for any of the reasons the routine
       hesiod_resolve may fail.

SEE ALSO
       hesiod(3)

                               30 November 1996                      HESIOD(3)