Name
getprotoent
Synopsis
getprotoent
Description
Retrieves the next line from the /etc/protocols file
(on some Unix systems). Returns null at the end of the file.
The return value from getprotoent
is:
($name, $aliases, $protocol_number)
In scalar context, getprotoent
returns only the protocol name.
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