Usage and Implementation Notes
Current Limitations
- Only one port is allowed in
RPC2_Init. This should be a list eventually. - SmartFTP is the only side-effect type currently supported.
- getsubsysbyname() is a fake routine. It knows about
Vice2-FileServer, andVice2-CallBack. - At present the multicast routines work only on RTs running Mach. The non-multicast MultiRPC routines work on all architectures.
Where to Find Files at Carnegie Mellon
The RPC2 release consists of a set of include files (rpc2.h, se.h), a set of libraries (librpc2.a and libse.a), and the RP2Gen binary (rp2gen).
The RPC2 releases are available for RTs, Sun-3s, Vaxen, Pmaxen running
Andrew and Mach, and Next running Andrew. (Systypes rt_r3, rt_mach,
sun3_35, sun3_mach, vax_3, vax_mach, pmax_3, pmax_mach,
next_mach20)
On Coda, these files may be found in
coda/project/coda/alpha/{include,lib,bin}.
On Andrew, these files are located in
/afs/andrew/scs/cs/15-612{include,lib,bin}.
iopen () is a system call created at Carnegie Mellon. Put an empty dummy function if your C library doesn't have it.
Debugging
The following external RPC2 variables may be set for debugging:
RPC2_DebugLevel-
Values of 0, 1, 10 and 100 are meaningful. Initial value is 0.
RPC2_Perror-
Set to 1 to see Unix error messages on stderr. Initial value is 1.
RPC2_Trace-
Set to 1 to enable tracing. 0 turns off tracing. Initial value is 0. Also see description of
RPC2_InitTraceandRPC2_DumpTracecalls.