unixGetPasswdEntry

Get the passwd file entry for the given user_name using getpwnam_r(). This can fail if the given user_name doesn’t exist.

The returned struct passwd has been allocated using [glib.global.gmalloc] and should be freed using [glib.global.gfree]. The strings referenced by the returned struct are included in the same allocation, so are valid until the struct passwd is freed.

This function is safe to call from multiple threads concurrently.

You will need to include pwd.h to get the definition of struct passwd.