Arguments

 

name

   The name of the user for which the attributes are to be read.
 

pwd

   The address of a passwd structure into which the function writes
   its results.
 

buffer

   A working buffer for the result argument that is able to hold the
   largest entry in the passwd structure. Storage referenced by the
   passwd structure is allocated from the memory provided with the
   buffer argument, which is bufsize characters in length.
 

bufsize

   The length of the character array that buffer points to.
 

result

   Upon successful return, is set to pwd. Upon unsuccessful return,
   the result is set to NULL.
 

 . . .

   An optional argument that can be either 1 or 0. If you specify
   1, the directory specification is returned in OpenVMS format. If
   you specify 0, the directory specification (pathname) is returned
   in UNIX style format. If you omit this argument, the function
   returns the directory specification according to your current
   command-language interpreter.