The network selection application programming interface
The network selection application interface consists of two sets of
network configuration database access library routines.
One set of routines accesses only the netconfig
entries identified by the
NETPATH
environment variable.
These are:
-
setnetpath
-
getnetpath
-
endnetpath
Applications should use these routines.
They allow users to influence the selection of transports
used by the application.
The routines are described below.
For more information, see the
getnetpath(3N)
and
getnetconfig(3N)
manual pages.
If an application does not want the user to influence its decision,
then the routines that access the
netconfig
database directly should be used.
These are:
-
setnetconfig
-
getnetconfig
-
endnetconfig
-
getnetconfigent
-
freenetconfigent
The System V network selection
component is also described in
``Administering network selection''.
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UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.4 - 27 April 2004