The following terms define the RPC concepts used throughout this manual.
A program or system that uses the services of a remote program or system.
A client process data structure that represents the binding of the client to a particular server's RPC program.
See stream transport.
See datagram transport.
Datagram transports have less overhead than connection-oriented transports but are considered less reliable and data transmissions are limited by buffer size.
Convert data from XDR format to a machine-specific representation.
An abstraction used by the service libraries to refer to a file or a file-like object such as a socket.
A computer (mainframe, mini, server, workstation, or personal computer) connected to a network.
An interface is multithreaded hot if the library or call automatically creates threads.
An interface is multithreaded safe if it can be called in a threaded environment. An MT-safe interface may be invoked concurrently for multiple threads.
Usually client. A process that makes remote procedure calls to services.
Usually server. A process that performs a network service. A server may support more than one version of a remote program to be forward compatible with changing protocols.
A collection of one or more remote service programs.
The ping service is used to verify activity on a remote system.
A program that implements one or more remote procedures.
A C-like programming language translated by the rpcgen compiler. RPCL is a superset of XDR Language.
libnsl, specified to the link editor at compile time. Also known as the RPC package.
The message-passing protocol that is the basis of the RPC package.
See RPC Language.
Converting data from a machine representation to XDR format.
A process that provides remote service to clients.
Stream transport is considered reliable. It supports byte-stream deliveries of unlimited data size.
The fourth layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model.
An abstraction used by the RPC libraries to refer to the transport's data structures.
Transport-independent RPC. The version of RPC supported in SunOS 5.x.
Transport-specific RPC. The version of RPC supported in SunOS 4.x. TS-RPC is also supported in SunOS 5.x.
A machine-independent representation of a transport address.
See streamtransport.
A data description language and data representation protocol.