Arguments

 

uid

   The user ID (UID) for which the attributes are to be read.
 

pwd

   The location where the retrieved passwd structure is to be
   placed.
 

buffer

   A working buffer for the result argument that is able to hold the
   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 size.
 

bufsize

   The length of the character array that buffer points to.
 

result

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

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   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.