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.TH nlsprovider 3NSL "14 Nov 2002" "SunOS 5.11" "Networking Services Library Functions"
.SH NAME
nlsprovider \- get name of transport provider
.SH SYNOPSIS
.LP
.nf
\fBchar *\fR\fBnlsprovider\fR(\fBvoid\fR);
.fi

.SH DESCRIPTION
.sp
.LP
\fBnlsprovider()\fR returns a pointer to a null-terminated character string
which contains the name of the transport provider as placed in the environment
by the listener process.  If the variable is not defined in the environment, a
NULL pointer is returned.
.sp
.LP
The environment variable is only available to server processes started by the
listener process.
.SH RETURN VALUES
.sp
.LP
If the variable is not defined in the environment, a NULL pointer is returned.
.SH FILES
.sp
.ne 2
.mk
.na
\fB\fB/usr/lib/libnls.so.1\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 24n
.rt  
shared object
.RE

.SH ATTRIBUTES
.sp
.LP
See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp

.sp
.TS
tab() box;
cw(2.75i) |cw(2.75i) 
lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i) 
.
ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
_
MT-LevelUnsafe
.TE

.SH SEE ALSO
.sp
.LP
\fBnlsadmin\fR(1M), \fBattributes\fR(5)
.SH NOTES
.sp
.LP
This interface is unsafe in multithreaded applications.  Unsafe interfaces
should be called only from the main thread.