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The network selection application programming interface

The network selection application interface consists of two sets of network configuration database access library routines. One set of routines accesses only the netconfig entries identified by the NETPATH environment variable. These are:

Applications should use these routines. They allow users to influence the selection of transports used by the application. The routines are described below. For more information, see the getnetpath(3N) and getnetconfig(3N) manual pages.

If an application does not want the user to influence its decision, then the routines that access the netconfig database directly should be used. These are:

The System V network selection component is also described in ``Administering network selection''.
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