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 nlsprovider 3NSL "14 Nov 2002" "SunOS 5.11" "Networking Services Library Functions"
 NAME
nlsprovider - get name of transport provider
 SYNOPSIS

char *nlsprovider(void);


 DESCRIPTION

nlsprovider() 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.

The environment variable is only available to server processes started by the
listener process.
 RETURN VALUES

If the variable is not defined in the environment, a NULL pointer is returned.
 FILES

/usr/lib/libnls.so.1

shared object


 ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:


ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
MT-LevelUnsafe


 SEE ALSO

nlsadmin(1M), attributes(5)
 NOTES

This interface is unsafe in multithreaded applications. Unsafe interfaces
should be called only from the main thread.