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<h2>Remote Procedure Call (RPC) APIs</h2>
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<p>The Remote Procedure Call (RPC) APIs include:</p>
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<li><a href="rpc2.htm">Authentication APIs</a></li>
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<li><a href="rpc3.htm">Name-to-Address Translation APIs</a></li>
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<li><a href="rpc4.htm">Network Selection APIs</a></li>
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<li><a href="rpc5.htm">Transport-Independent Remote Procedure Call (TI-RPC)
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APIs</a></li>
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<li><a href="rpc6.htm">External Data Representation (XDR) APIs</a></li>
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<p>These APIs are intended for programmers who develop distributed
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applications. They enable distributed applications to communicate with each
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other. Open Networking Computers (ONC) RPC was developed by Sun Microsystems
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and is used to easily separate and distribute a client application from a
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server by using the SUN RPC protocol. RPC includes a method of abstracting
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data, called eXternal Data Representation, or XDR, to allow communications to
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be abstracted at the API level.</p>
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<p>Transport-Independent RPC (TI-RPC), or ONC+ RPC, is the latest incantation
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of RPC. It provides a method of abstracting the underlying protocol used at the
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network layer, providing a more seamless transition from one protocol to
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another.</p>
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<p><strong>Note:</strong> These functions use header (include) files from the
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library QSYSINC, which is optionally installable. Make sure QSYSINC is
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installed on your system before using any of the functions. See
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<a href="rpc7.htm">Header Files for Remote Procedure Call APIs</a> for the
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file and member name of each header file.</p>
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<p>The following terms relate to the RPC applications:</p>
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<td align="left" valign="top"><strong>RPCBind</strong></td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">A daemon program that allows client programs to
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obtain the aress of a service that is registered with the RPCBind daemon.</td>
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<td align="left" valign="top"><strong>RPCGen</strong></td>
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<td align="left" valign="top">A compiler that accepts a remote-program
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interface definition written in the RPC language (RPCL), which is similar to
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the C programming language. From this definition, RPCGen produces C-language
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output for client stub functions, a server skeleton, XDR filter routines, and a
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header file.</td>
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<p>For more information on RPCBind and RPCGen, see the
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<a href="../rbam6/rbam6clmain.htm">Control Language</a> topic.</p>
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<p>For more information about these APIs, see
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<a href="../rzahp/rzahprpcover.htm">Sun TI-RPC distributed applications</a>
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in the Information Center.</p>
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