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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ The following databases are understood by the GNU C Library:
.TP 12
.B aliases
Mail aliases, used by
-.BR getaliasent (3)
+.MR getaliasent 3
and related functions.
.TP
.B ethers
@@ -33,17 +33,17 @@ Ethernet numbers.
.TP
.B group
Groups of users, used by
-.BR getgrent (3)
+.MR getgrent 3
and related functions.
.TP
.B hosts
Host names and numbers, used by
-.BR gethostbyname (3)
+.MR gethostbyname 3
and related functions.
.TP
.B initgroups
Supplementary group access list, used by
-.BR getgrouplist (3)
+.MR getgrouplist 3
function.
.TP
.B netgroup
@@ -52,17 +52,17 @@ C libraries before glibc 2.1 supported netgroups only over NIS.
.TP
.B networks
Network names and numbers, used by
-.BR getnetent (3)
+.MR getnetent 3
and related functions.
.TP
.B passwd
User passwords, used by
-.BR getpwent (3)
+.MR getpwent 3
and related functions.
.TP
.B protocols
Network protocols, used by
-.BR getprotoent (3)
+.MR getprotoent 3
and related functions.
.TP
.B publickey
@@ -70,24 +70,24 @@ Public and secret keys for Secure_RPC used by NFS and NIS+.
.TP
.B rpc
Remote procedure call names and numbers, used by
-.BR getrpcbyname (3)
+.MR getrpcbyname 3
and related functions.
.TP
.B services
Network services, used by
-.BR getservent (3)
+.MR getservent 3
and related functions.
.TP
.B shadow
Shadow user passwords, used by
-.BR getspnam (3)
+.MR getspnam 3
and related functions.
.P
The GNU C Library ignores databases with unknown names.
Some applications use this to implement special handling for their own
databases.
For example,
-.BR sudo (8)
+.MR sudo 8
consults the
.B sudoers
database.
@@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ can be configured using the
.B subid
database.
Refer to
-.BR subuid (5)
+.MR subuid 5
and
-.BR subgid (5)
+.MR subgid 5
for more details.
.P
Here is an example
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ are an exact match), the member list of the second entry will be added
to the group object to be returned.
Available since glibc 2.24.
Note that merging will not be done for
-.BR getgrent (3)
+.MR getgrent 3
nor will duplicate members be pruned when they occur in both entries
being merged.
.RE
@@ -423,5 +423,5 @@ which was based on the mechanism used by
Sun Microsystems in the Solaris 2 C library,
introduced a cleaner solution to the problem.
.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR getent (1),
-.BR nss (5)
+.MR getent 1 ,
+.MR nss 5