libdoor(3LIB)

Name | Synopsis | Description | INTERFACES | Files | Attributes | See Also

Name

libdoor– doors library

Synopsis

cc [ flag... ] file... -ldoor [ library... ]
#include <door.h>

Description

The functions in this library provide programmatic access to doors, including the ability to create and call them. Doors are a fast light-weight RPC mechanism for secure control transfer between processes on the same machine. Conceptually, a thread in one process can issue a call using a door descriptor that causes code to be executed in another process and then returns using the traditional synchronous RPC model. Doors can also be used to pass data and file descriptors between processes.

INTERFACES

The shared object libdoor.so.1 provides the public interfaces defined below. See Intro(3) for additional information on shared object interfaces.

door_bind	door_call
door_create	door_cred
door_info	door_return
door_revoke	door_server_create
door_ucred	door_unbind
door_xcreate

Files

/lib/libdoor.so.1

shared object

/lib/64/libdoor.so.1

64–bit shared object

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWcsl
Interface Stability	Evolving
MT-Level	Safe

See Also

Intro(3), door_bind(3DOOR), door_call(3DOOR), door_create(3DOOR), door_cred(3DOOR), door_info(3DOOR), door_return(3DOOR), door_revoke(3DOOR), door_server_create(3DOOR), door_ucred(3DOOR), attributes(5)

Stevens, W. Richard. UNIX Network Programming, Volume 2: Interprocess Communications, 2/e. Tucson, Ariz.: Prentice Hall, 1999.

SunOS 5.10  Last Revised 19 Apr 2010

Name | Synopsis | Description | INTERFACES | Files | Attributes | See Also