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        !             3: .OF 'Sun Microsystems''Release 2.0'
        !             4: .EF 'Release 2.0''Sun Microsystems'
        !             5: .RP
        !             6: .rm DY
        !             7: .TL
        !             8: .ps 20
        !             9: Remote Procedure Call
        !            10: .sp.5
        !            11: Programming Guide
        !            12: .
        !            13: .H 1 "Introduction"
        !            14: .LP
        !            15: Programs that communicate over a network
        !            16: need a paradigm for communication.
        !            17: A low-level mechanism might 
        !            18: send a signal on the arrival of incoming packets,
        !            19: causing a network signal handler to execute.
        !            20: A high-level mechanism would be the Ada 
        !            21: .L rendezvous .
        !            22: The method used at Sun is the
        !            23: Remote Procedure Call (RPC) paradigm,
        !            24: in which a client communicates with a server.
        !            25: In this process,
        !            26: the client first calls a procedure to send a data packet to the server.
        !            27: When the packet arrives, the server calls a dispatch routine,  
        !            28: performs whatever service is requested, sends back the reply,
        !            29: and the procedure call returns to the client.
        !            30: .LP
        !            31: The RPC interface is divided into three layers.
        !            32: The highest layer is totally transparent to the programmer.
        !            33: To illustrate,
        !            34: at this level a program can contain a call to
        !            35: .L rnusers() ,
        !            36: which returns the number of users on a remote machine.
        !            37: You don't have to be aware that RPC is being used,
        !            38: since you simply make the call in a program,
        !            39: just as you would call
        !            40: .L malloc() .
        !            41: .LP
        !            42: At the middle layer, the routines
        !            43: .L registerrpc()
        !            44: and
        !            45: .L callrpc()
        !            46: are used to make RPC calls:
        !            47: .L registerrpc()
        !            48: obtains a unique system-wide number, while
        !            49: .L callrpc()
        !            50: executes a remote procedure call.
        !            51: The 
        !            52: .L rnusers()
        !            53: call is implemented using these two routines
        !            54: The middle-layer routines are designed for most common applications,
        !            55: and shield the user from knowing about sockets.
        !            56: .LP
        !            57: The lowest layer is used for more sophisticated applications,
        !            58: which may want to alter the defaults of the routines.
        !            59: At this layer, you can explicitly manipulate
        !            60: sockets used for transmitting RPC messages.
        !            61: This level should be avoided if possible.
        !            62: .LP
        !            63: Section 2 of this manual illustrates use of the highest two layers
        !            64: while Section 3 presents the low-level interface.
        !            65: Section 4 of the manual discusses miscellaneous topics.
        !            66: The final section summarizes 
        !            67: all the entry points into the RPC system.
        !            68: .LP
        !            69: Although this document only discusses the interface to C,
        !            70: remote procedure calls can be made from any language.
        !            71: Even though this document discusses RPC
        !            72: when it is used to communicate
        !            73: between processes on different machines,
        !            74: it works just as well for communication
        !            75: between different processes on the same machine.
        !            76: .bp
        !            77: .
        !            78: .H 1 "Introductory Examples"
        !            79: .H 2 "Highest Layer"
        !            80: .LP
        !            81: Imagine you're writing a program that needs to know
        !            82: how many users are logged into a remote machine.
        !            83: You can do this by calling the library routine
        !            84: .L rnusers() ,
        !            85: as illustrated below:
        !            86: .LS
        !            87: #include <stdio.h>
        !            88: .sp.5
        !            89: main(argc, argv)
        !            90:        int argc;
        !            91:        char **argv;
        !            92: {
        !            93:        unsigned num;
        !            94: .sp.5
        !            95:        if (argc < 2) {
        !            96:                fprintf(stderr, "usage: rnusers hostname\en");
        !            97:                exit(1);
        !            98:        }
        !            99:        if ((num = rnusers(argv[1])) < 0) {
        !           100:                fprintf(stderr, "error: rnusers\en");
        !           101:                exit(-1);
        !           102:        }
        !           103:        printf("%d users on %s\en", num, argv[1]);
        !           104:        exit(0);
        !           105: }
        !           106: .LE
        !           107: RPC library routines such as
        !           108: .L rnusers()
        !           109: are included in the C library
        !           110: .L libc.a .
        !           111: Thus, the program above could be compiled with
        !           112: .LS
        !           113: % cc \fIprogram.c\fP
        !           114: .LE
        !           115: Some other library routines are
        !           116: .L rstat()
        !           117: to gather remote performance statistics, and
        !           118: .L ypmatch()
        !           119: to glean information from the yellow pages (YP).
        !           120: The YP library routines are documented on the manual page
        !           121: .I ypclnt (3N).
        !           122: .bp
        !           123: .
        !           124: .H 2 "Intermediate Layer"
        !           125: .LP
        !           126: The simplest interface, which explicitly makes RPC
        !           127: calls, uses the functions
        !           128: .L callrpc()
        !           129: and
        !           130: .L registerrpc() .
        !           131: Using this method, another way to get the number of remote users is:
        !           132: .LS
        !           133: #include <stdio.h>
        !           134: #include <rpcsvc/rusers.h>
        !           135: .sp.5
        !           136: main(argc, argv)
        !           137:        int argc;
        !           138:        char **argv;
        !           139: {
        !           140:        unsigned long nusers;
        !           141: .sp.5
        !           142:        if (argc < 2) {
        !           143:                fprintf(stderr, "usage: nusers hostname\en");
        !           144:                exit(-1);
        !           145:        }
        !           146:        if (callrpc(argv[1], RUSERSPROG, RUSERSVERS, RUSERSPROC_NUM,
        !           147:            xdr_void, 0, xdr_u_long, &nusers) != 0) {
        !           148:                fprintf(stderr, "error: callrpc\en");
        !           149:                exit(1);
        !           150:        }
        !           151:        printf("number of users on %s is %d\en", argv[1], nusers);
        !           152:        exit(0);
        !           153: }
        !           154: .LE
        !           155: A program number, version number, and procedure number
        !           156: defines each RPC procedure.
        !           157: The program number defines a group
        !           158: of related remote procedures, each of which has a different
        !           159: procedure number.
        !           160: Each program also has a version number,
        !           161: so when a minor change is made to a remote service
        !           162: (adding a new procedure, for example),
        !           163: a new program number doesn't have to be assigned.
        !           164: When you want to call a procedure to
        !           165: find the number of remote users, you look up the appropriate
        !           166: program, version and procedure numbers
        !           167: in a manual, similar to when you look up the name of memory
        !           168: allocator when you want to allocate memory.
        !           169: .LP
        !           170: The simplest routine in the RPC library
        !           171: used to make remote procedure calls is
        !           172: .L callrpc() .
        !           173: It has eight parameters.
        !           174: The first is the name of the remote machine.
        !           175: The next three parameters
        !           176: are the program, version, and procedure numbers.
        !           177: The following two parameters
        !           178: define the argument of the RPC call, and the final two parameters
        !           179: are for the return value of the call. 
        !           180: If it completes successfully,
        !           181: .L callrpc()
        !           182: returns zero, but nonzero otherwise.
        !           183: The exact meaning of the return codes is found in
        !           184: .L <rpc/clnt.h> ,
        !           185: and is in fact an
        !           186: .L "enum clnt_stat"
        !           187: cast into an integer.
        !           188: .LP
        !           189: Since data types may be represented differently on different machines,
        !           190: .L callrpc()
        !           191: needs both the type of the RPC argument, as well as
        !           192: a pointer to the argument itself (and similarly for the result).
        !           193: For RUSERSPROC_NUM, the return value is an
        !           194: .L "unsigned long" ,
        !           195: so 
        !           196: .L callrpc()
        !           197: has
        !           198: .L xdr_u_long
        !           199: as its first return parameter, which says 
        !           200: that the result is of type
        !           201: .L "unsigned long",
        !           202: and
        !           203: .L &nusers 
        !           204: as its second return parameter,
        !           205: which is a pointer to where the long result will be placed.
        !           206: Since RUSERSPROC_NUM takes no argument, the argument parameter of
        !           207: .L callrpc()
        !           208: is
        !           209: .L xdr_void .
        !           210: .LP
        !           211: After trying several times to deliver a message, if
        !           212: .L callrpc()
        !           213: gets no answer, it returns with an error code.
        !           214: The delivery mechanism is UDP,
        !           215: which stands for User Datagram Protocol.
        !           216: Methods for adjusting the number of retries
        !           217: or for using a different protocol require you to use the lower
        !           218: layer of the RPC library, discussed later in this document.
        !           219: The remote server procedure
        !           220: corresponding to the above might look like this:
        !           221: .LS
        !           222: char *
        !           223: nuser(indata)
        !           224:        char *indata;
        !           225: {
        !           226:        static int nusers;
        !           227: .sp.5
        !           228:        /*
        !           229:         * code here to compute the number of users
        !           230:         * and place result in variable nusers
        !           231:         */
        !           232:        return ((char *)&nusers);
        !           233: }
        !           234: .LE
        !           235: .LP
        !           236: It takes one argument, which is a pointer to the input
        !           237: of the remote procedure call (ignored in our example),
        !           238: and it returns a pointer to the result.
        !           239: In the current version of C,
        !           240: character pointers are the generic pointers,
        !           241: so both the input argument and the return value are cast to
        !           242: .L "char *" .
        !           243: .LP
        !           244: Normally, a server registers all of the RPC calls it plans
        !           245: to handle, and then goes into an infinite loop waiting to service requests.
        !           246: In this example, there is only a single procedure
        !           247: to register, so the main body of the server would look like this:
        !           248: .LS
        !           249: #include <stdio.h>
        !           250: #include <rpcsvc/rusers.h>
        !           251: .sp.5
        !           252: char *nuser();
        !           253: .sp.5
        !           254: main()
        !           255: {
        !           256:        registerrpc(RUSERSPROG, RUSERSVERS, RUSERSPROC_NUM, nuser,
        !           257:            xdr_void, xdr_u_long);
        !           258:        svc_run();              /* never returns */
        !           259:        fprintf(stderr, "Error: svc_run returned!\en");
        !           260:        exit(1);
        !           261: }
        !           262: .LE
        !           263: .LP
        !           264: The
        !           265: .L registerrpc()
        !           266: routine establishes what C procedure
        !           267: corresponds to each RPC procedure number.
        !           268: The first three parameters,
        !           269: RUSERPROG, RUSERSVERS, and RUSERSPROC_NUM
        !           270: are the program, version, and procedure numbers
        !           271: of the remote procedure to be registered;
        !           272: .L nuser
        !           273: is the name of the C procedure implementing it;
        !           274: and 
        !           275: .L xdr_void
        !           276: and
        !           277: .L xdr_u_long
        !           278: are the types of the input to and output from the procedure.
        !           279: .LP
        !           280: Only the UDP transport mechanism can use
        !           281: .L registerrpc() ;
        !           282: thus, it is always safe in conjunction with calls generated by 
        !           283: .L callrpc() .
        !           284: .LP
        !           285: Warning: the UDP transport mechanism can only deal with
        !           286: arguments and results less than 8K bytes in length.
        !           287: .
        !           288: .H 2 "Assigning Program Numbers"
        !           289: .LP
        !           290: Program numbers are assigned in groups of 0x20000000 (536870912)
        !           291: according to the following chart:
        !           292: .LS
        !           293:        0 - 1fffffff    defined by sun
        !           294: 20000000 - 3fffffff    defined by user
        !           295: 40000000 - 5fffffff    transient
        !           296: 60000000 - 7fffffff    reserved
        !           297: 80000000 - 9fffffff    reserved
        !           298: a0000000 - bfffffff    reserved
        !           299: c0000000 - dfffffff    reserved
        !           300: e0000000 - ffffffff    reserved
        !           301: .LE
        !           302: Sun Microsystems administers the first group of numbers,
        !           303: which should be identical for all Sun customers.
        !           304: If a customer develops an application that might be of general
        !           305: interest, that application should be given an assigned number
        !           306: in the first range.
        !           307: The second group of numbers is reserved for specific customer
        !           308: applications.
        !           309: This range is intended primarily for debugging new programs.
        !           310: The third group is reserved for applications that
        !           311: generate program numbers dynamically.
        !           312: The final groups
        !           313: are reserved for future use, and should not be used.
        !           314: .LP
        !           315: The exact registration process for Sun defined numbers is yet
        !           316: to be established.
        !           317: .
        !           318: .H 2 "Passing Arbitrary Data Types"
        !           319: .LP
        !           320: In the previous example, the RPC call passes a single
        !           321: .L "unsigned long."
        !           322: RPC can handle arbitrary data structures, regardless of
        !           323: different machines' byte orders or structure layout conventions,
        !           324: by always converting them to a network standard called 
        !           325: .I "eXternal Data Representation"
        !           326: (XDR) before
        !           327: sending them over the wire.
        !           328: The process of converting from a particular machine representation
        !           329: to XDR format is called
        !           330: .I serializing ,
        !           331: and the reverse process is called
        !           332: .I deserializing .
        !           333: The type field parameters of 
        !           334: .L callrpc()
        !           335: and
        !           336: .L registerrpc()
        !           337: can be a built-in procedure like
        !           338: .L xdr_u_long()
        !           339: in the previous example, or a user supplied one.
        !           340: XDR has these built-in type routines:
        !           341: .LS
        !           342: xdr_int()      xdr_u_int()      xdr_enum()
        !           343: xdr_long()     xdr_u_long()     xdr_bool()  
        !           344: xdr_short()    xdr_u_short()    xdr_string()
        !           345: .LE
        !           346: As an example of a user-defined type routine,
        !           347: if you wanted to send the structure
        !           348: .LS
        !           349: struct simple {
        !           350:        int a;
        !           351:        short b;
        !           352: } simple;
        !           353: .LE
        !           354: then you would call
        !           355: .L callrpc
        !           356: as
        !           357: .LS
        !           358: callrpc(hostname, PROGNUM, VERSNUM, PROCNUM, xdr_simple, &simple ...);
        !           359: .LE
        !           360: where
        !           361: .L xdr_simple()
        !           362: is written as:
        !           363: .LS
        !           364: #include <rpc/rpc.h>
        !           365: .sp.5
        !           366: xdr_simple(xdrsp, simplep)
        !           367:        XDR *xdrsp;
        !           368:        struct simple *simplep;
        !           369: {
        !           370:        if (!xdr_int(xdrsp, &simplep->a))
        !           371:                return (0);
        !           372:        if (!xdr_short(xdrsp, &simplep->b))
        !           373:                return (0);
        !           374:        return (1);
        !           375: }
        !           376: .LE
        !           377: .LP
        !           378: An XDR routine returns nonzero (true in the sense of C)
        !           379: if it completes successfully, and zero otherwise.
        !           380: A complete description of XDR is in the 
        !           381: .I "XDR Protocol Specification" ,
        !           382: so this section only gives a few examples of XDR implementation.
        !           383: .LP
        !           384: In addition to the built-in primitives,
        !           385: there are also the prefabricated building blocks:
        !           386: .LS
        !           387: xdr_array()       xdr_bytes()
        !           388: xdr_reference()   xdr_union()
        !           389: .LE
        !           390: To send a variable array of integers,
        !           391: you might package them up as a structure like this
        !           392: .LS
        !           393: struct varintarr {
        !           394:        int *data;
        !           395:        int arrlnth;
        !           396: } arr;
        !           397: .LE
        !           398: and make an RPC call such as
        !           399: .LS
        !           400: callrpc(hostname, PROGNUM, VERSNUM, PROCNUM, xdr_varintarr, &arr...);
        !           401: .LE
        !           402: with
        !           403: .L xdr_varintarr()
        !           404: defined as:
        !           405: .LS
        !           406: xdr_varintarr(xdrsp, varintarr)
        !           407:        XDR *xdrsp;
        !           408:        struct varintarr *arrp;
        !           409: {
        !           410:        xdr_array(xdrsp, &arrp->data, &arrp->arrlnth, MAXLEN,
        !           411:                sizeof(int), xdr_int);
        !           412: }
        !           413: .LE
        !           414: This routine takes as parameters the XDR handle,
        !           415: a pointer to the array, a pointer to the size of the array,
        !           416: the maximum allowable array size,
        !           417: the size of each array element,
        !           418: and an XDR routine for handling each array element.
        !           419: .LP
        !           420: If the size of the array is known in advance, then
        !           421: the following could also be used to send 
        !           422: out an array of length SIZE:
        !           423: .LS
        !           424: int intarr[SIZE];
        !           425: .sp.5
        !           426: xdr_intarr(xdrsp, intarr)
        !           427:        XDR *xdrsp;
        !           428:        int intarr[];
        !           429: {
        !           430:        int i;
        !           431: .sp.5
        !           432:        for (i = 0; i < SIZE; i++) {
        !           433:                if (!xdr_int(xdrsp, &intarr[i]))
        !           434:                        return (0);
        !           435:        }
        !           436:        return (1);
        !           437: }
        !           438: .LE
        !           439: .LP
        !           440: XDR always converts quantities to 4-byte multiples when deserializing.
        !           441: Thus, if either of the examples above involved characters
        !           442: instead of integers, each character would occupy 32 bits.
        !           443: That is the reason for the XDR routine
        !           444: .L xdr_bytes() ,
        !           445: which is like
        !           446: .L xdr_array()
        !           447: except that it packs characters.
        !           448: It has four parameters,
        !           449: the same as the first four parameters of
        !           450: .L xdr_array() .
        !           451: For null-terminated strings, there is also the
        !           452: .L xdr_string()
        !           453: routine, which is the same as
        !           454: .L xdr_bytes()
        !           455: without the length parameter.
        !           456: On serializing it gets the string length from 
        !           457: .L strlen() ,
        !           458: and on deserializing it creates a null-terminated string.
        !           459: .LP
        !           460: Here is a final example that calls the previously written
        !           461: .L xdr_simple()
        !           462: as well as the built-in functions
        !           463: .L xdr_string()
        !           464: and
        !           465: .L xdr_reference() ,
        !           466: which chases pointers:
        !           467: .LS
        !           468: struct finalexample {
        !           469:        char *string;
        !           470:        struct simple *simplep;
        !           471: } finalexample;
        !           472: .LE
        !           473: .LS
        !           474: xdr_finalexample(xdrsp, finalp)
        !           475:        XDR *xdrsp;
        !           476:        struct finalexample *finalp;
        !           477: {
        !           478:        int i;
        !           479: .sp.5
        !           480:        if (!xdr_string(xdrsp, &finalp->string, MAXSTRLEN))
        !           481:                return (0);
        !           482:        if (!xdr_reference(xdrsp, &finalp->simplep,
        !           483:            sizeof(struct simple), xdr_simple);
        !           484:                return (0);
        !           485:        return (1);
        !           486: }
        !           487: .LE
        !           488: .bp
        !           489: .
        !           490: .H 1 "Lower Layers of RPC"
        !           491: .LP
        !           492: In the examples given so far,
        !           493: RPC takes care of many details automatically for you.
        !           494: In this section, we'll show you how you can change the defaults
        !           495: by using lower layers of the RPC library.
        !           496: It is assumed that you are familiar with sockets
        !           497: and the system calls for dealing with them.
        !           498: If not, consult
        !           499: .I "The IPC Tutorial" .
        !           500: .H 2 "More on the Server Side"
        !           501: .LP
        !           502: There are a number of assumptions built into 
        !           503: .L registerrpc() .
        !           504: One is that you are using the UDP datagram protocol.
        !           505: Another is that
        !           506: you don't want to do anything unusual while deserializing,
        !           507: since the deserialization process happens automatically
        !           508: before the user's server routine is called.
        !           509: The server for the
        !           510: .L nusers
        !           511: program shown below
        !           512: is written using a lower layer of the RPC package,
        !           513: which does not make these assumptions.
        !           514: .LS
        !           515: #include <stdio.h>
        !           516: #include <rpc/rpc.h>
        !           517: #include <rpcsvc/rusers.h>
        !           518: .sp.5
        !           519: int nuser();
        !           520: .sp.5
        !           521: main()
        !           522: {
        !           523:        SVCXPRT *transp;
        !           524: .sp.5
        !           525:        transp = svcudp_create(RPC_ANYSOCK);
        !           526:        if (transp == NULL){
        !           527:                fprintf(stderr, "couldn't create an RPC server\en");
        !           528:                exit(1);
        !           529:        }
        !           530:        pmap_unset(RUSERSPROG, RUSERSVERS);
        !           531:        if (!svc_register(transp, RUSERSPROG, RUSERSVERS, nuser,
        !           532:            IPPROTO_UDP)) {
        !           533:                fprintf(stderr, "couldn't register RUSER service\en");
        !           534:                exit(1);
        !           535:        }
        !           536:        svc_run();  /* never returns */
        !           537:        fprintf(stderr, "should never reach this point\en");
        !           538: }
        !           539: .LE
        !           540: .LS
        !           541: nuser(rqstp, tranp)
        !           542:        struct svc_req *rqstp;
        !           543:        SVCXPRT *transp;
        !           544: {
        !           545:        unsigned long nusers;
        !           546: .sp.5
        !           547:        switch (rqstp->rq_proc) {
        !           548:        case NULLPROC:
        !           549:                if (!svc_sendreply(transp, xdr_void, 0)) {
        !           550:                        fprintf(stderr, "couldn't reply to RPC call\en");
        !           551:                        exit(1);
        !           552:                }
        !           553:                return;
        !           554:        case RUSERSPROC_NUM:
        !           555:                /*
        !           556:                 * code here to compute the number of users
        !           557:                 * and put in variable nusers
        !           558:                 */
        !           559:                if (!svc_sendreply(transp, xdr_u_long, &nusers) {
        !           560:                        fprintf(stderr, "couldn't reply to RPC call\en");
        !           561:                        exit(1);
        !           562:                }
        !           563:                return;
        !           564:        default: 
        !           565:                svcerr_noproc(transp);
        !           566:                return;
        !           567:        }
        !           568: }
        !           569: .LE
        !           570: .LP
        !           571: First, the server gets a transport handle, which is used
        !           572: for sending out RPC messages.
        !           573: .L registerrpc()
        !           574: uses
        !           575: .L svcudp_create()
        !           576: to get a UDP handle.
        !           577: If you require a reliable protocol, call
        !           578: .L svctcp_create()
        !           579: instead.
        !           580: If the argument to
        !           581: .L svcudp_create()
        !           582: is RPC_ANYSOCK,
        !           583: the RPC library creates a socket
        !           584: on which to send out RPC calls.
        !           585: Otherwise, 
        !           586: .L svcudp_create()
        !           587: expects its argument to be a valid socket number.
        !           588: If you specify your own socket, it can be bound or unbound.
        !           589: If it is bound to a port by the user, the port numbers of
        !           590: .L svcudp_create()
        !           591: and
        !           592: .L clntudp_create()
        !           593: (the low-level client routine) must match.
        !           594: .LP
        !           595: When the user specifies RPC_ANYSOCK for a socket 
        !           596: or gives an unbound socket, the system determines
        !           597: port numbers in the following way:
        !           598: when a server starts up,
        !           599: it advertises to a port mapper demon on its local machine,
        !           600: which picks a port number for the RPC procedure
        !           601: if the socket specified to
        !           602: .L svcudp_create()
        !           603: isn't already bound.
        !           604: When the
        !           605: .L clntudp_create()
        !           606: call is made with an unbound socket,
        !           607: the system queries the port mapper on
        !           608: the machine to which the call is being made,
        !           609: and gets the appropriate port number.
        !           610: If the port mapper is not running
        !           611: or has no port corresponding to the RPC call,
        !           612: the RPC call fails.
        !           613: Users can make RPC calls
        !           614: to the port mapper themselves.
        !           615: The appropriate procedure
        !           616: numbers are in the include file
        !           617: .L <rpc/pmap_prot.h> .
        !           618: .LP
        !           619: After creating an SVCXPRT, the next step is to call
        !           620: .L pmap_unset()
        !           621: so that if the
        !           622: .L nusers
        !           623: server crashed earlier,
        !           624: any previous trace of it is erased before restarting.
        !           625: More precisely,
        !           626: .L pmap_unset()
        !           627: erases the entry for RUSERS from the port mapper's tables.
        !           628: .LP
        !           629: Finally, we associate the program number for
        !           630: .L nusers
        !           631: with the procedure 
        !           632: .L nuser() .
        !           633: The final argument to
        !           634: .L svc_register()
        !           635: is normally the protocol being used,
        !           636: which, in this case, is IPPROTO_UDP.
        !           637: Notice that unlike
        !           638: .L registerrpc() ,
        !           639: there are no XDR routines involved
        !           640: in the registration process.
        !           641: Also, registration is done on the program,
        !           642: rather than procedure, level.
        !           643: .LP
        !           644: The user routine 
        !           645: .L nuser()
        !           646: must call and dispatch the appropriate XDR routines
        !           647: based on the procedure number.
        !           648: Note that 
        !           649: two things are handled by 
        !           650: .L nuser()
        !           651: that
        !           652: .L registerrpc()
        !           653: handles automatically. 
        !           654: The first is that procedure NULLPROC
        !           655: (currently zero) returns with no arguments.
        !           656: This can be used as a simple test
        !           657: for detecting if a remote program is running.
        !           658: Second, there is a check for invalid procedure numbers.
        !           659: If one is detected,
        !           660: .L svcerr_noproc()
        !           661: is called to handle the error.
        !           662: .LP
        !           663: The user service routine serializes the results and returns
        !           664: them to the RPC caller via 
        !           665: .L svc_sendreply() .
        !           666: Its first parameter is the SVCXPRT handle,
        !           667: the second is the XDR routine,
        !           668: and the third is a pointer to the data to be returned.
        !           669: Not illustrated above is how a server
        !           670: handles an RPC program that passes data.
        !           671: As an example, we can add a procedure RUSERSPROC_BOOL,
        !           672: which has an argument
        !           673: .L nusers ,
        !           674: and returns TRUE or FALSE depending on
        !           675: whether there are nusers logged on.
        !           676: It would look like this:
        !           677: .LS
        !           678: case RUSERSPROC_BOOL: {
        !           679:        int bool;
        !           680:        unsigned nuserquery;
        !           681: .sp.5
        !           682:        if (!svc_getargs(transp, xdr_u_int, &nuserquery) {
        !           683:                svcerr_decode(transp);
        !           684:                return;
        !           685:        }
        !           686:        /*
        !           687:         * code to set nusers = number of users
        !           688:         */
        !           689:        if (nuserquery == nusers)
        !           690:                bool = TRUE;
        !           691:        else
        !           692:                bool = FALSE;
        !           693:        if (!svc_sendreply(transp, xdr_bool, &bool){
        !           694:                 fprintf(stderr, "couldn't reply to RPC call\en");
        !           695:                 exit(1);
        !           696:        }
        !           697:        return;
        !           698: }
        !           699: .LE
        !           700: .LP
        !           701: The relevant routine is
        !           702: .L svc_getargs() ,
        !           703: which takes an SVCXPRT handle, the XDR routine,
        !           704: and a pointer to where the input is to be placed as arguments.
        !           705: .H 2 "Memory Allocation with XDR"
        !           706: .LP
        !           707: XDR routines not only do input and output,
        !           708: they also do memory allocation.
        !           709: This is why the second parameter of
        !           710: .L xdr_array()
        !           711: is a pointer to an array, rather than the array itself.
        !           712: If it is NULL, then
        !           713: .L xdr_array()
        !           714: allocates space for the array and returns a pointer to it, 
        !           715: putting the size of the array in the third argument.
        !           716: As an example, consider the following XDR routine
        !           717: .L xdr_chararr1() ,
        !           718: which deals with a fixed array of bytes with length SIZE:
        !           719: .LS
        !           720: xdr_chararr1(xdrsp, chararr)
        !           721:        XDR *xdrsp;
        !           722:        char chararr[];
        !           723: {
        !           724:        char *p;
        !           725:        int len;
        !           726: .sp.5
        !           727:        p = chararr;
        !           728:        len = SIZE;
        !           729:        return (xdr_bytes(xdrsp, &p, &len, SIZE));
        !           730: }
        !           731: .LE
        !           732: It might be called from a server like this,
        !           733: .LS
        !           734: char chararr[SIZE];
        !           735: .sp.5
        !           736: svc_getargs(transp, xdr_chararr1, chararr);
        !           737: .LE
        !           738: where
        !           739: .L chararr
        !           740: has already allocated space.
        !           741: If you want XDR to do the allocation,
        !           742: you would have to rewrite this routine in the following way:
        !           743: .LS
        !           744: xdr_chararr2(xdrsp, chararrp)
        !           745:        XDR *xdrsp;
        !           746:        char **chararrp;
        !           747: {
        !           748:        int len;
        !           749: .sp.5
        !           750:        len = SIZE;
        !           751:        return (xdr_bytes(xdrsp, charrarrp, &len, SIZE));
        !           752: }
        !           753: .LE
        !           754: Then the RPC call might look like this:
        !           755: .LS
        !           756: char *arrptr;
        !           757: .sp.5
        !           758: arrptr = NULL;
        !           759: svc_getargs(transp, xdr_chararr2, &arrptr);
        !           760: /* 
        !           761:  * use the result here
        !           762:  */
        !           763: svc_freeargs(xdrsp, xdr_chararr2, &arrptr);
        !           764: .LE
        !           765: After using the character array, it can be freed with
        !           766: .L svc_freeargs() .
        !           767: In the routine
        !           768: .L xdr_finalexample()
        !           769: given earlier, if
        !           770: .L finalp->string
        !           771: was NULL in the call
        !           772: .LS
        !           773: svc_getargs(transp, xdr_finalexample, &finalp);
        !           774: .LE
        !           775: then
        !           776: .LS
        !           777: svc_freeargs(xdrsp, xdr_finalexample, &finalp);
        !           778: .LE
        !           779: frees the array allocated to hold
        !           780: .L finalp->string ;
        !           781: otherwise, it frees nothing.
        !           782: The same is true for
        !           783: .L finalp->simplep .
        !           784: .LP
        !           785: To summarize, each XDR routine is responsible
        !           786: for serializing, deserializing, and allocating memory.
        !           787: When an XDR routine is called from
        !           788: .L callrpc() ,
        !           789: the serializing part is used.
        !           790: When called from
        !           791: .L svc_getargs() ,
        !           792: the deserializer is used.
        !           793: And when called from
        !           794: .L svc_freeargs() ,
        !           795: the memory deallocator is used.
        !           796: When building simple examples like those in this section,
        !           797: a user doesn't have to worry about the three modes.
        !           798: The XDR reference manual has examples of more
        !           799: sophisticated XDR routines that 
        !           800: determine which of the three modes they are in
        !           801: to function correctly.
        !           802: .
        !           803: .H 2 "The Calling Side"
        !           804: .LP
        !           805: When you use
        !           806: .L callrpc,
        !           807: you have no control over the RPC delivery
        !           808: mechanism or the socket used to transport the data.
        !           809: To illustrate the layer of RPC that lets you adjust these
        !           810: parameters, consider the following code to call the
        !           811: .L nusers
        !           812: service:
        !           813: .LS
        !           814: #include <stdio.h>
        !           815: #include <rpc/rpc.h>
        !           816: #include <rpcsvc/rusers.h>
        !           817: #include <sys/socket.h>
        !           818: #include <sys/time.h>
        !           819: #include <netdb.h>
        !           820: .sp.5
        !           821: main(argc, argv)
        !           822:        int argc;
        !           823:        char **argv;
        !           824: {
        !           825:        struct hostent *hp;
        !           826:        struct timeval pertry_timeout, total_timeout;
        !           827:        struct sockaddr_in server_addr;
        !           828:        int addrlen, sock = RPC_ANYSOCK;
        !           829:        register CLIENT *client;
        !           830:        enum clnt_stat clnt_stat;
        !           831:        unsigned long nusers;
        !           832: .sp.5
        !           833:        if (argc < 2) {
        !           834:                fprintf(stderr, "usage: nusers hostname\en");
        !           835:                exit(-1);
        !           836:        }
        !           837:        if ((hp = gethostbyname(argv[1])) == NULL) {
        !           838:                fprintf(stderr, "cannot get addr for '%s'\en", argv[1]);
        !           839:                exit(-1);
        !           840:        }
        !           841:        pertry_timeout.tv_sec = 3;
        !           842:        pertry_timeout.tv_usec = 0;
        !           843:        addrlen = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in);
        !           844:        bcopy(hp->h_addr, (caddr_t)&server_addr.sin_addr, hp->h_length);
        !           845:        server_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
        !           846:        server_addr.sin_port =  0;
        !           847:        if ((client = clntudp_create(&server_addr, RUSERSPROG,
        !           848:            RUSERSVERS, pertry_timeout, &sock)) == NULL) {
        !           849:                perror("clntudp_create");
        !           850:                exit(-1);
        !           851:        }
        !           852:        total_timeout.tv_sec = 20;
        !           853:        total_timeout.tv_usec = 0;
        !           854:        clnt_stat = clnt_call(client, RUSERSPROC_NUM, xdr_void, 0,
        !           855:            xdr_u_long, &nusers, total_timeout);
        !           856:        if (clnt_stat != RPC_SUCCESS) {
        !           857:                clnt_perror(client, "rpc");
        !           858:                exit(-1);
        !           859:        }
        !           860:        clnt_destroy(client);
        !           861: }
        !           862: .LE
        !           863: The low-level version of 
        !           864: .L callrpc()
        !           865: is
        !           866: .L clnt_call() ,
        !           867: which takes a CLIENT pointer rather than a host name.
        !           868: The parameters to 
        !           869: .L clnt_call()
        !           870: are a CLIENT pointer, the procedure number,
        !           871: the XDR routine for serializing the argument,
        !           872: a pointer to the argument,
        !           873: the XDR routine for deserializing the return value,
        !           874: a pointer to where the return value will be placed,
        !           875: and the time in seconds to wait for a reply.
        !           876: .LP
        !           877: The CLIENT pointer is encoded with  
        !           878: the transport mechanism.
        !           879: .L callrpc()
        !           880: uses UDP, thus it calls
        !           881: .L clntudp_create()
        !           882: to get a CLIENT pointer.
        !           883: To get TCP (Transport Control Protocol), you would use
        !           884: .L clnttcp_create() .
        !           885: .LP
        !           886: The parameters to
        !           887: .L clntudp_create()
        !           888: are the server address, the length of the server address,
        !           889: the program number, the version number,
        !           890: a timeout value (between tries), and a pointer to a socket.
        !           891: The final argument to
        !           892: .L clnt_call()
        !           893: is the total time to wait for a response.
        !           894: Thus, the number of tries is the
        !           895: .L clnt_call()
        !           896: timeout divided by the
        !           897: .L clntudp_create()
        !           898: timeout.
        !           899: .LP
        !           900: There is one thing to note when using the
        !           901: .L clnt_destroy()
        !           902: call.
        !           903: It deallocates any space associated with the CLIENT handle,
        !           904: but it does not close the socket associated with it,
        !           905: which was passed as an argument to
        !           906: .L clntudp_create() .
        !           907: The reason is that if 
        !           908: there are multiple client handles using the same socket,
        !           909: then it is possible to close one handle
        !           910: without destroying the socket that other handles
        !           911: are using.
        !           912: .LP
        !           913: To make a stream connection, the call to
        !           914: .L clntudp_create()
        !           915: is replaced with a call to 
        !           916: .L clnttcp_create(). 
        !           917: .LS
        !           918: clnttcp_create(&server_addr, prognum, versnum, &socket, inputsize,
        !           919:        outputsize);
        !           920: .LE
        !           921: There is no timeout argument; instead, the receive and send buffer
        !           922: sizes must be specified.  When the
        !           923: .L clnttcp_create()
        !           924: call is made, a TCP connection is established.
        !           925: All RPC calls using that CLIENT handle would use this connection.
        !           926: The server side of an RPC call using TCP has 
        !           927: .L svcudp_create()
        !           928: replaced by
        !           929: .L svctcp_create() .
        !           930: .bp
        !           931: .
        !           932: .H 1 "Other RPC Features"
        !           933: .LP
        !           934: This section discusses some other aspects of RPC
        !           935: that are occasionally useful.
        !           936: .
        !           937: .H 2 "Select on the Server Side"
        !           938: .LP
        !           939: Suppose a process is processing RPC requests
        !           940: while performing some other activity.
        !           941: If the other activity involves periodically updating a data structure,
        !           942: the process can set an alarm signal before calling
        !           943: .L svc_run() .
        !           944: But if the other activity
        !           945: involves waiting on a a file descriptor, the
        !           946: .L svc_run()
        !           947: call won't work.
        !           948: The code for
        !           949: .L svc_run()
        !           950: is as follows:
        !           951: .LS
        !           952: void
        !           953: svc_run()
        !           954: {
        !           955:        int readfds;
        !           956: .sp.5
        !           957:        for (;;) {
        !           958:                readfds = svc_fds;
        !           959:                switch (select(32, &readfds, NULL, NULL, NULL)) {
        !           960: .sp.5
        !           961:                case -1:
        !           962:                        if (errno == EINTR)
        !           963:                                continue;
        !           964:                        perror("rstat: select");
        !           965:                        return;
        !           966:                case 0:
        !           967:                        break;
        !           968:                default:
        !           969:                        svc_getreq(readfds);
        !           970:                }
        !           971:        }
        !           972: }
        !           973: .LE
        !           974: .LP
        !           975: You can bypass
        !           976: .L svc_run() 
        !           977: and call
        !           978: .L svc_getreq()
        !           979: yourself.
        !           980: All you need to know are the file descriptors
        !           981: of the socket(s) associated with the programs you are waiting on.
        !           982: Thus you can have your own
        !           983: .L select()
        !           984: that waits on both the RPC socket,
        !           985: and your own descriptors.
        !           986: .
        !           987: .H 2 "Broadcast RPC"
        !           988: .LP
        !           989: The
        !           990: .L pmap
        !           991: and RPC protocols implement broadcast RPC.
        !           992: Here are the main differences between broadcast RPC
        !           993: and normal RPC calls:
        !           994: .IP 1)
        !           995: Normal RPC expects one answer, whereas
        !           996: broadcast RPC expects many answers
        !           997: (one or more answer from each responding machine).
        !           998: .IP 2)
        !           999: Broadcast RPC can only be supported by packet-oriented (connectionless)
        !          1000: transport protocols like UPD/IP.
        !          1001: .IP 3)
        !          1002: The implementation of broadcast RPC
        !          1003: treats all unsuccessful responses as garbage by filtering them out.
        !          1004: Thus, if there is a version mismatch between the
        !          1005: broadcaster and a remote service,
        !          1006: the user of broadcast RPC never knows.
        !          1007: .IP 4)
        !          1008: All broadcast messages are sent to the portmap port.
        !          1009: Thus, only services that register themselves with their portmapper
        !          1010: are accessible via the broadcast RPC mechanism.
        !          1011: .
        !          1012: .H 3 "Broadcast RPC Synopsis"
        !          1013: .LP
        !          1014: .LS
        !          1015: #include <rpc/pmap_clnt.h>
        !          1016: .sp.5
        !          1017: enum clnt_stat clnt_stat;
        !          1018: .sp.5
        !          1019: clnt_stat =
        !          1020: clnt_broadcast(prog, vers, proc, xargs, argsp, xresults, resultsp, eachresult)
        !          1021: u_long         prog;           /* program number */
        !          1022: u_long         vers;           /* version number */
        !          1023: u_long         proc;           /* procedure number */
        !          1024: xdrproc_t      xargs;          /* xdr routine for args */
        !          1025: caddr_t                argsp;          /* pointer to args */
        !          1026: xdrproc_t      xresults;       /* xdr routine for results */
        !          1027: caddr_t                resultsp;       /* pointer to results */
        !          1028: bool_t (*eachresult)();                /* call with each result obtained */
        !          1029: .LE
        !          1030: The procedure
        !          1031: .L eachresult()
        !          1032: is called each time a valid result is obtained.
        !          1033: It returns a boolean that indicates
        !          1034: whether or not the client wants more responses.
        !          1035: .LS
        !          1036: bool_t                 done;
        !          1037: .sp.5
        !          1038: done =
        !          1039: eachresult(resultsp, raddr)
        !          1040: caddr_t                        resultsp;
        !          1041: struct sockaddr_in     *raddr;   /* address of machine that sent response */
        !          1042: .LE
        !          1043: If
        !          1044: .L done
        !          1045: is TRUE, then broadcasting stops and
        !          1046: .L clnt_broadcast()
        !          1047: returns successfully.
        !          1048: Otherwise, the routine waits for another response.
        !          1049: The request is rebroadcast
        !          1050: after a few seconds of waiting.
        !          1051: If no responses come back,
        !          1052: the routine returns with RPC_TIMEDOUT.
        !          1053: To interpret 
        !          1054: .L clnt_stat
        !          1055: errors, feed the error code to
        !          1056: .L clnt_perrno() .
        !          1057: .
        !          1058: .H 2 "Batching"
        !          1059: .LP
        !          1060: The RPC architecture is designed so that clients send a call message,
        !          1061: and wait for servers to reply that the call succeeded.
        !          1062: This implies that clients do not compute
        !          1063: while servers are processing a call.
        !          1064: This is inefficient if the client does not want or need
        !          1065: an acknowledgement for every message sent.
        !          1066: It is possible for clients to continue computing
        !          1067: while waiting for a response,
        !          1068: using RPC batch facilities.
        !          1069: .LP
        !          1070: RPC messages can be placed in a ``pipeline'' of calls
        !          1071: to a desired server; this is called batching.
        !          1072: Batching assumes that:
        !          1073: 1) each RPC call in the pipeline requires no response from the server,
        !          1074: and the server does not send a response message; and
        !          1075: 2) the pipeline of calls is transported on a reliable
        !          1076: byte stream transport such as TCP/IP.
        !          1077: Since the server does not respond to every call,
        !          1078: the client can generate new calls in parallel
        !          1079: with the server executing previous calls.
        !          1080: Furthermore, the TCP/IP implementation can buffer up
        !          1081: many call messages, and send them to the server in one
        !          1082: .L write
        !          1083: system call.  This overlapped execution
        !          1084: greatly decreases the interprocess communication overhead of
        !          1085: the client and server processes,
        !          1086: and the total elapsed time of a series of calls.
        !          1087: .LP
        !          1088: Since the batched calls are buffered,
        !          1089: the client should eventually do a legitimate call
        !          1090: in order to flush the pipeline.
        !          1091: .LP
        !          1092: A contrived example of batching follows.
        !          1093: Assume a string rendering service (like a window system)
        !          1094: has two similar calls: one renders a string and returns void results,
        !          1095: while the other renders a string and remains silent.
        !          1096: The service (using the TCP/IP transport) may look like:
        !          1097: .LS
        !          1098: #include <stdio.h>
        !          1099: #include <rpc/rpc.h>
        !          1100: #include <rpcsvc/windows.h>
        !          1101: .sp.5
        !          1102: void windowdispatch();
        !          1103: .sp.5
        !          1104: main()
        !          1105: {
        !          1106:        SVCXPRT *transp;
        !          1107: .sp.5
        !          1108:        transp = svctcp_create(RPC_ANYSOCK, 0, 0);
        !          1109:        if (transp == NULL){
        !          1110:                fprintf(stderr, "couldn't create an RPC server\en");
        !          1111:                exit(1);
        !          1112:        }
        !          1113:        pmap_unset(WINDOWPROG, WINDOWVERS);
        !          1114:        if (!svc_register(transp, WINDOWPROG, WINDOWVERS, windowdispatch,
        !          1115:            IPPROTO_TCP)) {
        !          1116:                fprintf(stderr, "couldn't register WINDOW service\en");
        !          1117:                exit(1);
        !          1118:        }
        !          1119:        svc_run();  /* never returns */
        !          1120:        fprintf(stderr, "should never reach this point\en");
        !          1121: }
        !          1122: .LE
        !          1123: .LS no
        !          1124: void
        !          1125: windowdispatch(rqstp, transp)
        !          1126:        struct svc_req *rqstp;
        !          1127:        SVCXPRT *transp;
        !          1128: {
        !          1129:        char *s = NULL;
        !          1130: .sp.5
        !          1131:        switch (rqstp->rq_proc) {
        !          1132:        case NULLPROC:
        !          1133:                if (!svc_sendreply(transp, xdr_void, 0)) {
        !          1134:                        fprintf(stderr, "couldn't reply to RPC call\en");
        !          1135:                        exit(1);
        !          1136:                }
        !          1137:                return;
        !          1138:        case RENDERSTRING:
        !          1139:                if (!svc_getargs(transp, xdr_wrapstring, &s)) {
        !          1140:                        fprintf(stderr, "couldn't decode arguments\en");
        !          1141:                        svcerr_decode(transp); /* tell caller he screwed up */
        !          1142:                        break;
        !          1143:                }
        !          1144:                /*
        !          1145:                 * call here to to render the string s
        !          1146:                 */
        !          1147:                if (!svc_sendreply(transp, xdr_void, NULL)) {
        !          1148:                        fprintf(stderr, "couldn't reply to RPC call\en");
        !          1149:                        exit(1);
        !          1150:                }
        !          1151:                break;
        !          1152:        case RENDERSTRING_BATCHED:
        !          1153:                if (!svc_getargs(transp, xdr_wrapstring, &s)) {
        !          1154:                        fprintf(stderr, "couldn't decode arguments\en");
        !          1155:                        /*
        !          1156:                         * we are silent in the face of protocol errors
        !          1157:                         */
        !          1158:                        break;
        !          1159:                }
        !          1160:                /*
        !          1161:                 * call here to to render the string s,
        !          1162:                 * but sends no reply!
        !          1163:                 */
        !          1164:                break;
        !          1165:        default:
        !          1166:                svcerr_noproc(transp);
        !          1167:                return;
        !          1168:        }
        !          1169:        /*
        !          1170:         * now free string allocated while decoding arguments
        !          1171:         */
        !          1172:        svc_freeargs(transp, xdr_wrapstring, &s);
        !          1173: }
        !          1174: .LE
        !          1175: Of course the service could have one procedure
        !          1176: that takes the string and a boolean
        !          1177: to indicate whether or not the procedure should respond.
        !          1178: .LP
        !          1179: In order for a client to take advantage of batching,
        !          1180: the client must perform RPC calls on a TCP-based transport
        !          1181: and the actual calls must have the following attributes:
        !          1182: 1) the result's XDR routine must be zero (NULL), and
        !          1183: 2) the RPC call's timeout must be zero.
        !          1184: .LP
        !          1185: Here is an example of a client that uses batching
        !          1186: to render a bunch of strings;
        !          1187: the batching is flushed when the client gets a null string:
        !          1188: .LS
        !          1189: #include <stdio.h>
        !          1190: #include <rpc/rpc.h>
        !          1191: #include <rpcsvc/windows.h>
        !          1192: #include <sys/socket.h>
        !          1193: #include <sys/time.h>
        !          1194: #include <netdb.h>
        !          1195: .sp.5
        !          1196: main(argc, argv)
        !          1197:        int argc;
        !          1198:        char **argv;
        !          1199: {
        !          1200:        struct hostent *hp;
        !          1201:        struct timeval pertry_timeout, total_timeout;
        !          1202:        struct sockaddr_in server_addr;
        !          1203:        int addrlen, sock = RPC_ANYSOCK;
        !          1204:        register CLIENT *client;
        !          1205:        enum clnt_stat clnt_stat;
        !          1206:        char buf[1000];
        !          1207:        char *s = buf;
        !          1208: .sp.5 
        !          1209:        /*
        !          1210:         * initial as in example 3.3
        !          1211:         */
        !          1212:        if ((client = clnttcp_create(&server_addr, WINDOWPROG,
        !          1213:            WINDOWVERS, &sock, 0, 0)) == NULL) {
        !          1214:                perror("clnttcp_create");
        !          1215:                exit(-1);
        !          1216:        }
        !          1217:        total_timeout.tv_sec = 0;
        !          1218:        total_timeout.tv_usec = 0;
        !          1219:        while (scanf("%s", s) != EOF) {
        !          1220:                clnt_stat = clnt_call(client, RENDERSTRING_BATCHED,
        !          1221:                    xdr_wrapstring, &s, NULL, NULL, total_timeout);
        !          1222:                if (clnt_stat != RPC_SUCCESS) {
        !          1223:                        clnt_perror(client, "batched rpc");
        !          1224:                        exit(-1);
        !          1225:                }
        !          1226:        }
        !          1227:        /*
        !          1228:         * now flush the pipeline
        !          1229:         */
        !          1230:        total_timeout.tv_sec = 20;
        !          1231:        clnt_stat = clnt_call(client, NULLPROC,
        !          1232:            xdr_void, NULL, xdr_void, NULL, total_timeout);
        !          1233:        if (clnt_stat != RPC_SUCCESS) {
        !          1234:                clnt_perror(client, "rpc");
        !          1235:                exit(-1);
        !          1236:        }
        !          1237:        
        !          1238:        clnt_destroy(client);
        !          1239: }
        !          1240: .LE
        !          1241: Since the server sends no message,
        !          1242: the clients cannot be notified of any of the failures that may occur.
        !          1243: Therefore, clients are on their own when it comes to handling errors.
        !          1244: .LP
        !          1245: The above example was completed to render
        !          1246: all of the (2000) lines in the file
        !          1247: .I /etc/termcap .
        !          1248: The rendering service did nothing but to throw the lines away.
        !          1249: The example was run in the following four configurations:
        !          1250: 1) machine to itself, regular RPC;
        !          1251: 2) machine to itself, batched RPC;
        !          1252: 3) machine to another, regular RPC; and
        !          1253: 4) machine to another, batched RPC.
        !          1254: The results are as follows:
        !          1255: 1) 50 seconds;
        !          1256: 2) 16 seconds;
        !          1257: 3) 52 seconds;
        !          1258: 4) 10 seconds.
        !          1259: Running
        !          1260: .L fscanf()
        !          1261: on
        !          1262: .I /etc/termcap
        !          1263: only requires six seconds.
        !          1264: These timings show the advantage of protocols
        !          1265: that allow for overlapped execution,
        !          1266: though these protocols are often hard to design.
        !          1267: .
        !          1268: .H 2 "Authentication"
        !          1269: .LP
        !          1270: In the examples presented so far,
        !          1271: the caller never identified itself to the server,
        !          1272: and the server never required an ID from the caller.
        !          1273: Clearly, some network services, such as a network filesystem,
        !          1274: require stronger security than what has been presented so far.
        !          1275: .LP
        !          1276: In reality, every RPC call is authenticated by
        !          1277: the RPC package on the server, and similarly,
        !          1278: the RPC client package generates and sends authentication parameters.
        !          1279: Just as different transports (TCP/IP or UDP/IP)
        !          1280: can be used when creating RPC clients and servers,
        !          1281: different forms of authentication can be associated with RPC clients;
        !          1282: the default authentication type used as a default is type
        !          1283: .I none .
        !          1284: .LP
        !          1285: The authentication subsystem of the RPC package is open ended.
        !          1286: That is, numerous types of authentication are easy to support.
        !          1287: However, this section deals only with
        !          1288: .I unix
        !          1289: type authentication, which besides
        !          1290: .I none
        !          1291: is the only supported type.
        !          1292: .
        !          1293: .H 3 "The Client Side"
        !          1294: .LP
        !          1295: When a caller creates a new RPC client handle as in:
        !          1296: .LS
        !          1297: clnt = clntudp_create(address, prognum, versnum, wait, sockp)
        !          1298: .LE
        !          1299: the appropriate transport instance defaults
        !          1300: the associate authentication handle to be
        !          1301: .LS
        !          1302: clnt->cl_auth = authnone_create();
        !          1303: .LE
        !          1304: The RPC client can choose to use
        !          1305: .I unix
        !          1306: style authentication by setting
        !          1307: .L clnt->cl_auth
        !          1308: after creating the RPC client handle:
        !          1309: .LS
        !          1310: clnt->cl_auth = authunix_create_default();
        !          1311: .LE
        !          1312: This causes each RPC call associated with
        !          1313: .L clnt
        !          1314: to carry with it the following authentication credentials structure:
        !          1315: .LS
        !          1316: /*
        !          1317:  * Unix style credentials.
        !          1318:  */
        !          1319: struct authunix_parms {
        !          1320:        u_long  aup_time;       /* credentials creation time */
        !          1321:        char    *aup_machname;  /* host name of where the client is calling */
        !          1322:        int     aup_uid;        /* client's UNIX effective uid */
        !          1323:        int     aup_gid;        /* client's current UNIX group id */
        !          1324:        u_int   aup_len;        /* the element length of aup_gids array */
        !          1325:        int     *aup_gids;      /* array of 4.2 groups to which user belongs */
        !          1326: };
        !          1327: .LE
        !          1328: These fields are set by
        !          1329: .L authunix_create_default()
        !          1330: by invoking the appropriate system calls.
        !          1331: .LP
        !          1332: Since the RPC user created this new style of authentication,
        !          1333: he is responsible for destroying it with:
        !          1334: .LS
        !          1335: auth_destroy(clnt->cl_auth);
        !          1336: .LE
        !          1337: .
        !          1338: .H 3 "The Server Side"
        !          1339: .LP
        !          1340: Service implementors have a harder time dealing with authentication issues
        !          1341: since the RPC package passes the service dispatch routine a request
        !          1342: that has an arbitrary authentication style associated with it.
        !          1343: Consider the fields of a request handle passed to a service dispatch routine:
        !          1344: .LS
        !          1345: /*
        !          1346:  * An RPC Service request
        !          1347:  */
        !          1348: struct svc_req {
        !          1349:        u_long          rq_prog;        /* service program number */
        !          1350:        u_long          rq_vers;        /* service protocol version number*/
        !          1351:        u_long          rq_proc;        /* the desired procedure number*/
        !          1352:        struct opaque_auth rq_cred;     /* raw credentials from the ``wire'' */
        !          1353:        caddr_t         rq_clntcred;    /* read only, cooked credentials */
        !          1354: };
        !          1355: .LE
        !          1356: The
        !          1357: .L rq_cred
        !          1358: is mostly opaque, except for one field of interest:
        !          1359: the style of authentication credentials:
        !          1360: .LS
        !          1361: /*
        !          1362:  * Authentication info.  Mostly opaque to the programmer.
        !          1363:  */
        !          1364: struct opaque_auth {
        !          1365:        enum_t  oa_flavor;      /* style of credentials */
        !          1366:        caddr_t oa_base;        /* address of more auth stuff */
        !          1367:        u_int   oa_length;      /* not to exceed MAX_AUTH_BYTES */
        !          1368: };
        !          1369: .LE
        !          1370: The RPC package guarantees the following
        !          1371: to the service dispatch routine:
        !          1372: .IP 1)
        !          1373: That the request's
        !          1374: .L rq_cred
        !          1375: is well formed.  Thus the service implementor may inspect the request's
        !          1376: .L rq_cred.oa_flavor
        !          1377: to determine which style of authentication the caller used.
        !          1378: The service implementor may also wish to inspect the other fields of
        !          1379: .L rq_cred
        !          1380: if the style is not one of the styles supported by the RPC package.
        !          1381: .IP 2)
        !          1382: That the request's
        !          1383: .L rq_clntcred
        !          1384: field is either NULL or points to a well formed structure
        !          1385: that corresponds to a supported style of authentication credentials.
        !          1386: Remember that only
        !          1387: .I unix
        !          1388: style is currently supported, so (currently)
        !          1389: .L rq_clntcred
        !          1390: could be cast to a pointer to an
        !          1391: .L authunix_parms
        !          1392: structure.  If
        !          1393: .L rq_clntcred
        !          1394: is NULL, the service implementor may wish to inspect
        !          1395: the other (opaque) fileds of
        !          1396: .L rq_cred
        !          1397: in case the service knows about a new type of authentication
        !          1398: that the RPC package does not know about.
        !          1399: .LP
        !          1400: Our remote users service example can be extended so that
        !          1401: it computes results for all users except UID 16:
        !          1402: .LS
        !          1403: nuser(rqstp, tranp)
        !          1404:        struct svc_req *rqstp;
        !          1405:        SVCXPRT *transp;
        !          1406: {
        !          1407:        struct authunix_parms *unix_cred;
        !          1408:        int uid;
        !          1409:        unsigned long nusers;
        !          1410: .sp.5
        !          1411:        /*
        !          1412:         * we don't care about authentication for the null procedure
        !          1413:         */
        !          1414:        if (rqstp->rq_proc == NULLPROC) {
        !          1415:                if (!svc_sendreply(transp, xdr_void, 0)) {
        !          1416:                        fprintf(stderr, "couldn't reply to RPC call\en");
        !          1417:                        exit(1);
        !          1418:                 }
        !          1419:                 return;
        !          1420:        }
        !          1421:        /*
        !          1422:         * now get the uid
        !          1423:         */
        !          1424:        switch (rqstp->rq_cred.oa_flavor) {
        !          1425:        case AUTH_UNIX:
        !          1426:                unix_cred = (struct authunix_parms *) rqstp->rq_clntcred;
        !          1427:                uid = unix_cred->aup_uid;
        !          1428:                break;
        !          1429:        case AUTH_NULL:
        !          1430:        default:
        !          1431:                svcerr_weakauth(transp);
        !          1432:                return;
        !          1433:        }
        !          1434:        switch (rqstp->rq_proc) {
        !          1435:        case RUSERSPROC_NUM:
        !          1436:                /*
        !          1437:                 * make sure the caller is allow to call this procedure.
        !          1438:                 */
        !          1439:                if (uid == 16) {
        !          1440:                        svcerr_systemerr(transp);
        !          1441:                        return;
        !          1442:                }
        !          1443:                /*
        !          1444:                 * code here to compute the number of users
        !          1445:                 * and put in variable nusers
        !          1446:                 */
        !          1447:                if (!svc_sendreply(transp, xdr_u_long, &nusers) {
        !          1448:                        fprintf(stderr, "couldn't reply to RPC call\en");
        !          1449:                        exit(1);
        !          1450:                }
        !          1451:                return;
        !          1452:        default:
        !          1453:                svcerr_noproc(transp);
        !          1454:                return;
        !          1455:        }
        !          1456: }
        !          1457: .LE
        !          1458: A few things should be noted here.
        !          1459: First, it is customary not to check the authentication parameters
        !          1460: associated with the NULLPROC (procedure number zero).
        !          1461: Second, if the authentication parameter's type is not suitable
        !          1462: for your service, you should call
        !          1463: .L svcerr_weakauth() .
        !          1464: And finally, the service protocol itself should return status
        !          1465: for access denied; in the case of our example, the protocol
        !          1466: does not have such a status, so we call the service primitive
        !          1467: .L svcerr_systemerr()
        !          1468: instead.
        !          1469: .LP
        !          1470: The last point underscores the relation between
        !          1471: the RPC authentication package and the services;
        !          1472: RPC deals only with authentication and not with
        !          1473: individual services' access control.
        !          1474: The services themselves must implement their own access control policies
        !          1475: and reflect these policies as return statuses in their protocols.
        !          1476: .
        !          1477: .H 2 "Using Inetd"
        !          1478: .LP
        !          1479: An RPC server can be started from
        !          1480: .L inetd .
        !          1481: The only difference
        !          1482: from the usual code is that
        !          1483: .L svcudp_create()
        !          1484: should be called as
        !          1485: .LS
        !          1486: transp = svcudp_create(0);
        !          1487: .LE
        !          1488: since
        !          1489: .L inet
        !          1490: passes a socket as file descriptor 0.
        !          1491: Also,
        !          1492: .L svc_register()
        !          1493: should be called as
        !          1494: .LS
        !          1495: svc_register(PROGNUM, VERSNUM, service, transp, 0);
        !          1496: .LE
        !          1497: with the final flag as 0,
        !          1498: since the program would already be registered by
        !          1499: .L inetd .
        !          1500: Remember that if you want to exit
        !          1501: from the server process and return control to
        !          1502: .L inet ,
        !          1503: you need to explicitly exit, since
        !          1504: .L svc_run()
        !          1505: never returns.
        !          1506: .LP
        !          1507: The format of entries in /etc/servers for RPC services is
        !          1508: .LS
        !          1509: rpc udp \fIserver \0program \0version\fP
        !          1510: .LE
        !          1511: where 
        !          1512: .I server
        !          1513: is the C code implementing the server,
        !          1514: and 
        !          1515: .I program
        !          1516: and
        !          1517: .I version
        !          1518: are the program and version numbers of the service.
        !          1519: The key word 
        !          1520: .L udp
        !          1521: can be replaced by 
        !          1522: .L tcp
        !          1523: for TCP-based RPC services.
        !          1524: .LP
        !          1525: If the same program handles multiple versions,
        !          1526: then the version number can be a range,
        !          1527: as in this example:
        !          1528: .LS
        !          1529: rpc udp /usr/etc/rstatd 100001 1-2
        !          1530: .LE
        !          1531: .bp
        !          1532: .
        !          1533: .H 1 "More Examples"
        !          1534: .H 2 "Versions"
        !          1535: .LP
        !          1536: By convention, the first version number of program FOO is 
        !          1537: FOOVERS_ORIG and the most recent version is FOOVERS.
        !          1538: Suppose there is a new version of the 
        !          1539: .L user
        !          1540: program that returns an
        !          1541: .L "unsigned short"
        !          1542: rather than a
        !          1543: .L long .
        !          1544: If we name this version
        !          1545: RUSERSVERS_SHORT, then
        !          1546: a server that wants to support both versions
        !          1547: would do a double register.
        !          1548: .LS
        !          1549: .sp.5
        !          1550: if (!svc_register(transp, RUSERSPROG, RUSERSVERS_ORIG, nuser,
        !          1551:     IPPROTO_TCP)) {
        !          1552:        fprintf(stderr, "couldn't register RUSER service\en");
        !          1553:        exit(1);
        !          1554: }
        !          1555: if (!svc_register(transp, RUSERSPROG, RUSERSVERS_SHORT, nuser,
        !          1556:     IPPROTO_TCP)) {
        !          1557:        fprintf(stderr, "couldn't register RUSER service\en");
        !          1558:        exit(1);
        !          1559: }
        !          1560: .LE
        !          1561: .bp
        !          1562: Both versions can be handled by the same C procedure:
        !          1563: .LS 0
        !          1564: nuser(rqstp, tranp)
        !          1565:        struct svc_req *rqstp;
        !          1566:        SVCXPRT *transp;
        !          1567: {
        !          1568:        unsigned long nusers;
        !          1569:        unsigned short nusers2
        !          1570: .sp.5
        !          1571:        switch (rqstp->rq_proc) {
        !          1572:        case NULLPROC:
        !          1573:                if (!svc_sendreply(transp, xdr_void, 0)) {
        !          1574:                        fprintf(stderr, "couldn't reply to RPC call\en");
        !          1575:                        exit(1);
        !          1576:                }
        !          1577:                return;
        !          1578:        case RUSERSPROC_NUM:
        !          1579:                /*
        !          1580:                 * code here to compute the number of users
        !          1581:                 * and put in variable nusers
        !          1582:                 */
        !          1583:                nusers2 = nusers;
        !          1584:                if (rqstp->rq_vers == RUSERSVERS_ORIG)
        !          1585:                        if (!svc_sendreply(transp, xdr_u_long, &nusers) {
        !          1586:                                fprintf(stderr, "couldn't reply to RPC call\en");
        !          1587:                                exit(1);
        !          1588:                        }
        !          1589:                else
        !          1590:                        if (!svc_sendreply(transp, xdr_u_short, &nusers2) {
        !          1591:                                fprintf(stderr, "couldn't reply to RPC call\en");
        !          1592:                                exit(1);
        !          1593:                return;
        !          1594:        default: 
        !          1595:                svcerr_noproc(transp);
        !          1596:                return;
        !          1597:        }
        !          1598: }
        !          1599: .LE
        !          1600: .H 2 "TCP"
        !          1601: .LP
        !          1602: Here is an example that is essentially  
        !          1603: .L rcp .
        !          1604: The initiator of the RPC 
        !          1605: .L snd()
        !          1606: call takes its standard input and sends it to the server 
        !          1607: .L rcv() ,
        !          1608: which prints it on standard output.
        !          1609: The RPC call uses TCP.
        !          1610: This also illustrates an XDR procedure that behaves differently
        !          1611: on serialization than on deserialization.
        !          1612: .LS 0
        !          1613: /* 
        !          1614:  * The xdr routine:
        !          1615:  *
        !          1616:  * on decode, read from wire, write onto fp
        !          1617:  * on encode, read from fp, write onto wire
        !          1618:  */
        !          1619: #include <stdio.h>
        !          1620: #include <rpc/rpc.h>
        !          1621: .sp.5
        !          1622: xdr_rcp(xdrs, fp)
        !          1623:        XDR *xdrs;
        !          1624:        FILE *fp;
        !          1625: {
        !          1626:        unsigned long size;
        !          1627:        char buf[MAXCHUNK], *p;
        !          1628: .sp.5
        !          1629:        if (xdrs->x_op == XDR_FREE)/* nothing to free */
        !          1630:                return 1;
        !          1631:        while (1) {
        !          1632:                if (xdrs->x_op == XDR_ENCODE) {
        !          1633:                        if ((size = fread (buf, sizeof(char), MAXCHUNK, fp))
        !          1634:                            == 0 && ferror(fp)) {
        !          1635:                                fprintf(stderr, "couldn't fread\en");
        !          1636:                                exit(1);
        !          1637:                        }
        !          1638:                }
        !          1639:                p = buf;
        !          1640:                if (!xdr_bytes(xdrs, &p, &size, MAXCHUNK))
        !          1641:                        return 0;
        !          1642:                if (size == 0)
        !          1643:                        return 1;
        !          1644:                if (xdrs->x_op == XDR_DECODE) {
        !          1645:                        if (fwrite(buf, sizeof(char), size, fp) != size) {
        !          1646:                                fprintf(stderr, "couldn't fwrite\en");
        !          1647:                                exit(1);
        !          1648:                        }
        !          1649:                }
        !          1650:        }
        !          1651: }
        !          1652: .LE
        !          1653: .LS 0
        !          1654: /*
        !          1655:  * The sender routines
        !          1656:  */
        !          1657: #include <stdio.h>
        !          1658: #include <netdb.h>
        !          1659: #include <rpc/rpc.h>
        !          1660: #include <sys/socket.h>
        !          1661: #include <sys/time.h>
        !          1662: .sp.5
        !          1663: main(argc, argv)
        !          1664:        int argc;
        !          1665:        char **argv;
        !          1666: {
        !          1667:        int err;
        !          1668: .sp.5
        !          1669:        if (argc < 2) {
        !          1670:                fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s server-name\en", argv[0]);
        !          1671:                exit(-1);
        !          1672:        }
        !          1673:        if ((err = callrpctcp(argv[1], RCPPROG, RCPPROC_FP, RCPVERS,
        !          1674:            xdr_rcp, stdin, xdr_void, 0) != 0)) {
        !          1675:                clnt_perrno(err);
        !          1676:                fprintf(stderr, " couldn't make RPC call\en");
        !          1677:                exit(1);
        !          1678:        }
        !          1679: }
        !          1680: .sp.5
        !          1681: callrpctcp(host, prognum, procnum, versnum, inproc, in, outproc, out)
        !          1682:        char *host, *in, *out;
        !          1683:        xdrproc_t inproc, outproc;
        !          1684: {
        !          1685:        struct sockaddr_in server_addr;
        !          1686:        int socket = RPC_ANYSOCK;
        !          1687:        enum clnt_stat clnt_stat;
        !          1688:        struct hostent *hp;
        !          1689:        register CLIENT *client;
        !          1690:        struct timeval total_timeout;
        !          1691: .sp.5
        !          1692:        if ((hp = gethostbyname(host)) == NULL) {
        !          1693:                fprintf(stderr, "cannot get addr for '%s'\en", host);
        !          1694:                exit(-1);
        !          1695:        }
        !          1696:        bcopy(hp->h_addr, (caddr_t)&server_addr.sin_addr, hp->h_length);
        !          1697:        server_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
        !          1698:        server_addr.sin_port =  0;
        !          1699:        if ((client = clnttcp_create(&server_addr, prognum,
        !          1700:            versnum, &socket, BUFSIZ, BUFSIZ)) == NULL) {
        !          1701:                perror("rpctcp_create");
        !          1702:                exit(-1);
        !          1703:        }
        !          1704:        total_timeout.tv_sec = 20;
        !          1705:        total_timeout.tv_usec = 0;
        !          1706:        clnt_stat = clnt_call(client, procnum, inproc, in, outproc, out, total_timeout);
        !          1707:        clnt_destroy(client)
        !          1708:        return (int)clnt_stat;
        !          1709: }
        !          1710: .LE
        !          1711: .LS 0
        !          1712: /*
        !          1713:  * The receiving routines
        !          1714:  */
        !          1715: #include <stdio.h>
        !          1716: #include <rpc/rpc.h>
        !          1717: .sp.5
        !          1718: main()
        !          1719: {
        !          1720:        register SVCXPRT *transp;
        !          1721: .sp.5
        !          1722:        if ((transp = svctcp_create(RPC_ANYSOCK, 1024, 1024)) == NULL) {
        !          1723:                fprintf("svctcp_create: error\en");
        !          1724:                exit(1);
        !          1725:        }
        !          1726:        pmap_unset(RCPPROG, RCPVERS);
        !          1727:        if (!svc_register(transp, RCPPROG, RCPVERS, rcp_service, IPPROTO_TCP)) {
        !          1728:                fprintf(stderr, "svc_register: error\en");
        !          1729:                exit(1);
        !          1730:        }
        !          1731:        svc_run();  /* never returns */
        !          1732:        fprintf(stderr, "svc_run should never return\en");
        !          1733: }
        !          1734: .sp.5
        !          1735: rcp_service(rqstp, transp)
        !          1736:        register struct svc_req *rqstp;
        !          1737:        register SVCXPRT *transp;
        !          1738: {
        !          1739:        switch (rqstp->rq_proc) {
        !          1740:        case NULLPROC:
        !          1741:                if (svc_sendreply(transp, xdr_void, 0) == 0) {
        !          1742:                        fprintf(stderr, "err: rcp_service");
        !          1743:                        exit(1);
        !          1744:                }
        !          1745:                return;
        !          1746:        case RCPPROC_FP:
        !          1747:                if (!svc_getargs(transp, xdr_rcp, stdout)) {
        !          1748:                        svcerr_decode(transp);
        !          1749:                        return;
        !          1750:                }
        !          1751:                if (!svc_sendreply(transp, xdr_void, 0)) {
        !          1752:                        fprintf(stderr, "can't reply\en");
        !          1753:                        return;
        !          1754:                }
        !          1755:                exit(0);
        !          1756:        default: 
        !          1757:                svcerr_noproc(transp);
        !          1758:                return;
        !          1759:        }
        !          1760: }
        !          1761: .LE
        !          1762: .H 2 "Callback Procedures"
        !          1763: .LP
        !          1764: Occasionally, it is useful to have a server become a client,
        !          1765: and make an RPC call back the process which is its client.
        !          1766: An example is remote debugging,
        !          1767: where the client is a window system program,
        !          1768: and the server is a debugger running on the remote machine.
        !          1769: Most of the time,
        !          1770: the user clicks a mouse button at the debugging window,
        !          1771: which converts this to a debugger command,
        !          1772: and then makes an RPC call to the server
        !          1773: (where the debugger is actually running),
        !          1774: telling it to execute that command.
        !          1775: However, when the debugger hits a breakpoint, the roles are reversed,
        !          1776: and the debugger wants to make an rpc call to the window program,
        !          1777: so that it can inform the user that a breakpoint has been reached.
        !          1778: .LP
        !          1779: In order to do an RPC callback,
        !          1780: you need a program number to make the RPC call on.
        !          1781: Since this will be a dynamically generated program number,
        !          1782: it should be in the transient range, 0x40000000 - 0x5fffffff.
        !          1783: The routine
        !          1784: .L gettransient()
        !          1785: returns a valid program number in the transient range,
        !          1786: and registers it with the portmapper.
        !          1787: It only talks to the portmapper running on the same machine as the
        !          1788: .L gettransient()
        !          1789: routine itself.
        !          1790: The call to
        !          1791: .L pmap_set()
        !          1792: is a test and set operation,
        !          1793: in that it indivisibly tests whether a program number
        !          1794: has already been registered,
        !          1795: and if it has not, then reserves it.
        !          1796: On return, the
        !          1797: .L sockp
        !          1798: argument will contain a socket that can be used
        !          1799: as the argument to an
        !          1800: .L svcudp_create()
        !          1801: or
        !          1802: .L svctcp_create()
        !          1803: call.
        !          1804: .LS
        !          1805: #include <stdio.h>
        !          1806: #include <rpc/rpc.h>
        !          1807: #include <sys/socket.h>
        !          1808: .sp.5
        !          1809: gettransient(proto, vers, sockp)
        !          1810:        int *sockp;
        !          1811: {
        !          1812:        static int prognum = 0x40000000;
        !          1813:        int s, len, socktype;
        !          1814:        struct sockaddr_in addr;
        !          1815: .sp.5
        !          1816:        switch(proto) {
        !          1817:                case IPPROTO_UDP:
        !          1818:                        socktype = SOCK_DGRAM;
        !          1819:                        break;
        !          1820:                case IPPROTO_TCP:
        !          1821:                        socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
        !          1822:                        break;
        !          1823:                default:
        !          1824:                        fprintf(stderr, "unknown protocol type\en");
        !          1825:                        return 0;
        !          1826:        }
        !          1827:        if (*sockp == RPC_ANYSOCK) {
        !          1828:                if ((s = socket(AF_INET, socktype, 0)) < 0) {
        !          1829:                        perror("socket");
        !          1830:                        return (0);
        !          1831:                }
        !          1832:                *sockp = s;
        !          1833:        }
        !          1834:        else
        !          1835:                s = *sockp;
        !          1836:        addr.sin_addr.s_addr = 0;
        !          1837:        addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
        !          1838:        addr.sin_port = 0;
        !          1839:        len = sizeof(addr);
        !          1840:        /*
        !          1841:         * may be already bound, so don't check for err
        !          1842:         */
        !          1843:        bind(s, &addr, len);
        !          1844:        if (getsockname(s, &addr, &len)< 0) {
        !          1845:                perror("getsockname");
        !          1846:                return (0);
        !          1847:        }
        !          1848:        while (pmap_set(prognum++, vers, proto, addr.sin_port) == 0)
        !          1849:                continue;
        !          1850:        return (prognum-1);
        !          1851: }
        !          1852: .LE
        !          1853: The following pair of programs illustrate how to use the
        !          1854: .L gettransient()
        !          1855: routine.
        !          1856: The client makes an RPC call to the server,
        !          1857: passing it a transient program number.
        !          1858: Then the client waits around to receive a callback
        !          1859: from the server at that program number.
        !          1860: The server registers the program EXAMPELPROG,
        !          1861: so that it can receive the RPC call
        !          1862: informing it of the callback program number.
        !          1863: Then at some random time (on receiving an ALRM signal in this example),
        !          1864: it sends a callback RPC call,
        !          1865: using the program number it received earlier.
        !          1866: .LS
        !          1867: /*
        !          1868:  * client
        !          1869:  */
        !          1870: #include <stdio.h>
        !          1871: #include <rpc/rpc.h>
        !          1872: .sp.5
        !          1873: int callback();
        !          1874: char hostname[256];
        !          1875: .sp.5
        !          1876: main(argc, argv)
        !          1877:        char **argv;
        !          1878: {
        !          1879:        int x, ans, s;
        !          1880:        SVCXPRT *xprt;
        !          1881: .sp.5
        !          1882:        gethostname(hostname, sizeof(hostname));
        !          1883:        s = RPC_ANYSOCK;
        !          1884:        x = gettransient(IPPROTO_UDP, 1, &s);
        !          1885:        fprintf(stderr, "client gets prognum %d\en", x);
        !          1886: 
        !          1887:        if ((xprt = svcudp_create(s)) == NULL) {
        !          1888:            fprintf(stderr, "rpc_server: svcudp_create\en");
        !          1889:            exit(1);
        !          1890:        }
        !          1891:        (void)svc_register(xprt, x, 1, callback, 0);
        !          1892: 
        !          1893:        ans = callrpc(hostname, EXAMPLEPROG, EXAMPLEPROC_CALLBACK,
        !          1894:            EXAMPLEVERS, xdr_int, &x, xdr_void, 0);
        !          1895:        if (ans != 0) {
        !          1896:                fprintf(stderr, "call: ");
        !          1897:                clnt_perrno(ans);
        !          1898:                fprintf(stderr, "\en");
        !          1899:        }
        !          1900:        svc_run();
        !          1901:        fprintf(stderr, "Error: svc_run shouldn't have returned\en");
        !          1902: }
        !          1903: .LE
        !          1904: .LS
        !          1905: callback(rqstp, transp)
        !          1906:        register struct svc_req *rqstp;
        !          1907:        register SVCXPRT *transp;
        !          1908: {
        !          1909:        switch (rqstp->rq_proc) {
        !          1910:                case 0:
        !          1911:                        if (svc_sendreply(transp, xdr_void, 0)  == FALSE) {
        !          1912:                                fprintf(stderr, "err: rusersd\en");
        !          1913:                                exit(1);
        !          1914:                            }
        !          1915:                        exit(0);
        !          1916:                case 1:
        !          1917:                        if (!svc_getargs(transp, xdr_void, 0)) {
        !          1918:                                svcerr_decode(transp);
        !          1919:                                exit(1);
        !          1920:                        }
        !          1921:                        fprintf(stderr, "client got callback\en");
        !          1922:                        if (svc_sendreply(transp, xdr_void, 0)  == FALSE) {
        !          1923:                                fprintf(stderr, "err: rusersd");
        !          1924:                                exit(1);
        !          1925:                        }
        !          1926:        }
        !          1927: }
        !          1928: .LE
        !          1929: .LS
        !          1930: /*
        !          1931:  * server
        !          1932:  */
        !          1933: #include <stdio.h>
        !          1934: #include <rpc/rpc.h>
        !          1935: #include <sys/signal.h>
        !          1936: .sp.5
        !          1937: char *getnewprog();
        !          1938: char hostname[256];
        !          1939: int docallback();
        !          1940: int pnum;              /*program number for callback routine */ 
        !          1941: .sp.5
        !          1942: main(argc, argv)
        !          1943:        char **argv;
        !          1944: {
        !          1945:        gethostname(hostname, sizeof(hostname));
        !          1946:        registerrpc(EXAMPLEPROG, EXAMPLEPROC_CALLBACK, EXAMPLEVERS,
        !          1947:            getnewprog, xdr_int, xdr_void);
        !          1948:        fprintf(stderr, "server going into svc_run\en");
        !          1949:        alarm(10);
        !          1950:        signal(SIGALRM, docallback);
        !          1951:        svc_run();
        !          1952:        fprintf(stderr, "Error: svc_run shouldn't have returned\en");
        !          1953: }
        !          1954: .sp.5
        !          1955: char *
        !          1956: getnewprog(pnump)
        !          1957:        char *pnump;
        !          1958: {
        !          1959:        pnum = *(int *)pnump;
        !          1960:        return NULL;
        !          1961: }
        !          1962: .sp.5
        !          1963: docallback()
        !          1964: {
        !          1965:        int ans;
        !          1966: .sp.5
        !          1967:        ans = callrpc(hostname, pnum, 1, 1, xdr_void, 0, xdr_void, 0);
        !          1968:        if (ans != 0) {
        !          1969:                fprintf(stderr, "server: ");
        !          1970:                clnt_perrno(ans);
        !          1971:                fprintf(stderr, "\en");
        !          1972:        }
        !          1973: }
        !          1974: .LE

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