NAME

       libssh2_knownhost_readfile - parse a file of known hosts

SYNOPSIS

       #include <libssh2.h>

       int libssh2_knownhost_readfile(LIBSSH2_KNOWNHOSTS *hosts,
                                      const char *filename, int type);

DESCRIPTION

       Reads a collection of known hosts from a specified file and adds them to the collection of
       known hosts.

       filename specifies which file to read

       type specifies what file type  it  is,  and  LIBSSH2_KNOWNHOST_FILE_OPENSSH  is  the  only
       currently supported format. This file is normally found named ~/.ssh/known_hosts

RETURN VALUE

       Returns a negative value, a regular libssh2 error code for errors, or a positive number as
       number of parsed known hosts in the file.

AVAILABILITY

       Added in libssh2 1.2

SEE ALSO

       libssh2_knownhost_init(3) libssh2_knownhost_free(3) libssh2_knownhost_check(3)