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diff --git a/man/rpc_svc_calls.3t b/man/rpc_svc_calls.3t new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4b3c08b --- /dev/null +++ b/man/rpc_svc_calls.3t @@ -0,0 +1,267 @@ +.\" @(#)rpc_svc_calls.3n 1.28 93/05/10 SMI; from SVr4 +.\" Copyright 1989 AT&T +.\" @(#)rpc_svc_calls 1.5 89/07/25 SMI; +.\" Copyright (c) 1988 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - All Rights Reserved. +.\" $NetBSD: rpc_svc_calls.3,v 1.1 2000/06/02 23:11:13 fvdl Exp $ +.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/rpc/rpc_svc_calls.3,v 1.8 2003/09/08 19:57:15 ru Exp $ +.Dd May 3, 1993 +.Dt RPC_SVC_CALLS 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm svc_dg_enablecache , +.Nm svc_exit , +.Nm svc_fdset , +.Nm svc_freeargs , +.Nm svc_getargs , +.Nm svc_getreq_common , +.Nm svc_getreq_poll , +.Nm svc_getreqset , +.Nm svc_getrpccaller , +.Nm svc_pollset , +.Nm svc_run , +.Nm svc_sendreply +.Nd library routines for RPC servers +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In rpc/rpc.h +.Ft int +.Fn svc_dg_enablecache "SVCXPRT *xprt" "const unsigned cache_size" +.Ft void +.Fn svc_exit "void" +.Ft bool_t +.Fn svc_freeargs "const SVCXPRT *xprt" "const xdrproc_t inproc" "caddr_t in" +.Ft bool_t +.Fn svc_getargs "const SVCXPRT *xprt" "const xdrproc_t inproc" "caddr_t in" +.Ft void +.Fn svc_getreq_common "const int fd" +.Ft void +.Fn svc_getreq_poll "struct pollfd *pfdp" "const int pollretval" +.Ft void +.Fn svc_getreqset "fd_set * rdfds" +.Ft "struct netbuf *" +.Fn svc_getrpccaller "const SVCXPRT *xprt" +.Ft "struct cmsgcred *" +.Fn __svc_getcallercreds "const SVCXPRT *xprt" +.Vt struct pollfd svc_pollset[FD_SETSIZE]; +.Ft void +.Fn svc_run "void" +.Ft bool_t +.Fn svc_sendreply "SVCXPRT *xprt" "xdrproc_t outproc" "char *out" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +These routines are part of the +RPC +library which allows C language programs to make procedure +calls on other machines across the network. +.Pp +These routines are associated with the server side of the +RPC mechanism. +Some of them are called by the server side dispatch function, +while others +(such as +.Fn svc_run ) +are called when the server is initiated. +.\" .Pp +.\" In the current implementation, the service transport handle, +.\" .Dv SVCXPRT , +.\" contains a single data area for decoding arguments and encoding results. +.\" Therefore, this structure cannot be freely shared between threads that call +.\" functions that do this. +.\" Routines on this page that are affected by this +.\" restriction are marked as unsafe for MT applications. +.Sh Routines +See +.Xr rpc 3 +for the definition of the +.Vt SVCXPRT +data structure. +.Bl -tag -width __svc_getcallercreds() +.It Fn svc_dg_enablecache +This function allocates a duplicate request cache for the +service endpoint +.Fa xprt , +large enough to hold +.Fa cache_size +entries. +Once enabled, there is no way to disable caching. +This routine returns 0 if space necessary for a cache of the given size +was successfully allocated, and 1 otherwise. +.It Fn svc_exit +This function, when called by any of the RPC server procedure or +otherwise, causes +.Fn svc_run +to return. +.Pp +As currently implemented, +.Fn svc_exit +zeroes the +.Va svc_fdset +global variable. +If RPC server activity is to be resumed, +services must be reregistered with the RPC library +either through one of the +.Xr rpc_svc_create 3 +functions, or using +.Fn xprt_register . +The +.Fn svc_exit +function +has global scope and ends all RPC server activity. +.It Xo +.Vt fd_set Va svc_fdset +.Xc +A global variable reflecting the +RPC server's read file descriptor bit mask; it is suitable as an argument +to the +.Xr select 2 +system call. +This is only of interest +if service implementors do not call +.Fn svc_run , +but rather do their own asynchronous event processing. +This variable is read-only (do not pass its address to +.Xr select 2 ! ) , +yet it may change after calls to +.Fn svc_getreqset +or any creation routines. +.It Fn svc_freeargs +A function macro that frees any data allocated by the +RPC/XDR system when it decoded the arguments to a service procedure +using +.Fn svc_getargs . +This routine returns +.Dv TRUE +if the results were successfully +freed, and +.Dv FALSE +otherwise. +.It Fn svc_getargs +A function macro that decodes the arguments of an +RPC request associated with the RPC +service transport handle +.Fa xprt . +The +.Fa in +argument +is the address where the arguments will be placed; +.Fa inproc +is the XDR +routine used to decode the arguments. +This routine returns +.Dv TRUE +if decoding succeeds, and +.Dv FALSE +otherwise. +.It Fn svc_getreq_common +This routine is called to handle a request on the given +file descriptor. +.It Fn svc_getreq_poll +This routine is only of interest if a service implementor +does not call +.Fn svc_run , +but instead implements custom asynchronous event processing. +It is called when +.Xr poll 2 +has determined that an RPC request has arrived on some RPC +file descriptors; +.Fa pollretval +is the return value from +.Xr poll 2 +and +.Fa pfdp +is the array of +.Vt pollfd +structures on which the +.Xr poll 2 +was done. +It is assumed to be an array large enough to +contain the maximal number of descriptors allowed. +.It Fn svc_getreqset +This routine is only of interest if a service implementor +does not call +.Fn svc_run , +but instead implements custom asynchronous event processing. +It is called when +.Xr poll 2 +has determined that an RPC +request has arrived on some RPC file descriptors; +.Fa rdfds +is the resultant read file descriptor bit mask. +The routine returns when all file descriptors +associated with the value of +.Fa rdfds +have been serviced. +.It Fn svc_getrpccaller +The approved way of getting the network address of the caller +of a procedure associated with the +RPC service transport handle +.Fa xprt . +.It Fn __svc_getcallercreds +.Em Warning : +this macro is specific to +.Fx +and thus not portable. +This macro returns a pointer to a +.Vt cmsgcred +structure, defined in +.In sys/socket.h , +identifying the calling client. +This only works if the client is +calling the server over an +.Dv AF_LOCAL +socket. +.It Xo +.Vt struct pollfd Va svc_pollset[FD_SETSIZE] ; +.Xc +.Va svc_pollset +is an array of +.Vt pollfd +structures derived from +.Va svc_fdset[] . +It is suitable as an argument to the +.Xr poll 2 +system call. +The derivation of +.Va svc_pollset +from +.Va svc_fdset +is made in the current implementation in +.Fn svc_run . +Service implementors who do not call +.Fn svc_run +and who wish to use this array must perform this derivation themselves. +.It Fn svc_run +This routine never returns. +It waits for RPC +requests to arrive, and calls the appropriate service +procedure using +.Fn svc_getreq_poll +when one arrives. +This procedure is usually waiting for the +.Xr poll 2 +system call to return. +.It Fn svc_sendreply +Called by an RPC service's dispatch routine to send the results of a +remote procedure call. +The +.Fa xprt +argument +is the request's associated transport handle; +.Fa outproc +is the XDR +routine which is used to encode the results; and +.Fa out +is the address of the results. +This routine returns +.Dv TRUE +if it succeeds, +.Dv FALSE +otherwise. +.El +.Sh AVAILABILITY +These functions are part of libtirpc. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr poll 2 , +.Xr select 2 , +.Xr rpc 3 , +.Xr rpc_svc_create 3 , +.Xr rpc_svc_err 3 , +.Xr rpc_svc_reg 3 |