Preface

The RPC Extensions Developer's Guide describes additions made to Sun's RPC (remote procedure call) library in Solaris™ 8 update 7.

Who Should Use This Book

This book is intended for the use of application developers using remote procedure calls in a Solaris™ development environment, and includes detailed information on:

• One-way messaging

• Non-blocking I/O

• Client connection closure callback

• User file descriptor callbacks

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.

For more information on distributed services, see the ONC+ Developer's Guide.

How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1, Extensions to The Sun RPC Library, discusses the additions made to the Sun RPC library in Solaris™ 8 update 7.

Related Books

For more information on developing with RPC, and distributed systems in general, see the ONC+ Developer's Guide.

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Accessing Sun Documentation Online

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Typographic Conventions

The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.

Table P–1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface or Symbol	Meaning	Example
AaBbCc123	The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output	Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% you have mail.
AaBbCc123	What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output	machine_name% su Password:
AaBbCc123	Command-line placeholder: replace with a real name or value	To delete a file, type rm filename.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new words, or terms, or words to be emphasized.	Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options. You must be root to do this.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

Table P–2 Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell prompt	machine_name%
C shell superuser prompt	machine_name#
Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt	$
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt	#