Overview – The ONC+ RPC Developer's Guide describes the programming interfaces to remote procedure call (RPC) which belongs to the ONC+® distributed services.
Audience – The guide assists you in converting an existing single-computer application to a networked, distributed application, or developing and implementing distributed applications.
Use of this guide assumes basic competence in programming, a working familiarity with the C programming language, and a working familiarity with the UNIX® operating system. Previous experience in network programming is helpful, but is not required to use this manual.
Required knowledge – For information on NFS distributed computing file system, see the following sources.
NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol Specification. Sun Microsystems, 1993. You can view a PostScript copy by using anonymous ftp:
ftp.uu.net:/networking/ip/nfs/NFS3.spec.ps.Z bcm.tmc.edu:
/nfs/nfsv3.ps.Z gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/standards/nfs/nfsv3.ps.Z
1094 NFS: Network File System Protocol Specification Version 2
1813 NFS Version 3 Protocol Specification
1831 RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification Version 2
1832 XDR: External Data Representation Standard
The following third-party books and articles provide information on network programming topics.
Brent Callaghan. NFS Illustrated, Addision-Wesley Professional Computing Series. ISBN: 0201325705
W. Richard Stevens. “Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI” in UNIX Network Programming Volume 1. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall Software Series, 1990. Describes UNIX network programming, including code examples. Covers IPv4 and IPv6, sockets and XTI, TCP and UDP, raw sockets, programming techniques, multicasting, and broadcasting.
John Bloomer. Power Programming with RPC Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc, 1992.
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