Compile-Time MT Auto Mode

MT Auto mode enables RPC servers to automatically use Solaris threads to process client requests concurrently. Use the -A option to generate RPC code in MT Auto mode. The -A option also has the effect of turning on the -M option, so -M does not need to be explicitly specified. The -M option is necessary because any code that is generated has to be multithread safe.

The section Chapter 7, Multithreaded RPC Programming contains further discussion on multithreaded RPC. See also MT Auto Mode.

An example of an Auto mode program generated by rpcgen follows in the rpcgen protocol file time.x. A string is passed to the remote procedure, which prints the string and returns its length to the client.

Example 3–21 MT Auto Mode: time.x

		program TIMEPROG {
			version TIMEVERS {
				unsigned int TIMEGET(void) = 1;
				void TIMESET(unsigned) = 2;
			} = 1;
		} = 0x20000044;

The MT-safe stubs are generated with the rpcgen -A time.x command.

When the -A option is used, the generated server code contains instructions for enabling MT Auto mode for the server.

When compiling a server that uses MT Auto mode, you must link in the threads library. To do so, specify the -lthread option in the compile command.