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RPC_SVC_CALLS(3)	 BSD Library Functions Manual	      RPC_SVC_CALLS(3)

NAME
     svc_dg_enablecache, svc_exit, svc_fdset, svc_freeargs, svc_getargs,
     svc_getreq_common,	svc_getreq_poll, svc_getreqset,	svc_getrpccaller,
     svc_pollset, svc_run, svc_sendreply -- library routines for RPC servers

LIBRARY
     Standard C	Library	(libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <rpc/rpc.h>

     int
     svc_dg_enablecache(SVCXPRT	*xprt, const unsigned cache_size);

     void
     svc_exit(void);

     bool_t
     svc_freeargs(const	SVCXPRT	*xprt, const xdrproc_t inproc, caddr_t in);

     bool_t
     svc_getargs(const SVCXPRT *xprt, const xdrproc_t inproc, caddr_t in);

     void
     svc_getreq_common(const int fd);

     void
     svc_getreq_poll(struct pollfd *pfdp, const	int pollretval);

     void
     svc_getreqset(fd_set * rdfds);

     struct netbuf *
     svc_getrpccaller(const SVCXPRT *xprt);

     struct cmsgcred *
     __svc_getcallercreds(const	SVCXPRT	*xprt);

     struct pollfd svc_pollset[FD_SETSIZE];

     void
     svc_run(void);

     bool_t
     svc_sendreply(SVCXPRT *xprt, xdrproc_t outproc, void *out);

DESCRIPTION
     These routines are	part of	the RPC	library	which allows C language	pro-
     grams to make procedure calls on other machines across the	network.

     These routines are	associated with	the server side	of the RPC mechanism.
     Some of them are called by	the server side	dispatch function, while oth-
     ers (such as svc_run()) are called	when the server	is initiated.

Routines
     See rpc(3)	for the	definition of the SVCXPRT data structure.

     svc_dg_enablecache()    This function allocates a duplicate request cache
			     for the service endpoint xprt, large enough to
			     hold 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.

     svc_exit()		     This function, when called	by any of the RPC
			     server procedure or otherwise, causes svc_run()
			     to	return.

			     As	currently implemented, svc_exit() zeroes the
			     svc_fdset global variable.	 If RPC	server activ-
			     ity is to be resumed, services must be reregis-
			     tered with	the RPC	library	either through one of
			     the rpc_svc_create(3) functions, or using
			     xprt_register().  The svc_exit() function has
			     global scope and ends all RPC server activity.

     fd_set svc_fdset	     A global variable reflecting the RPC server's
			     read file descriptor bit mask; it is suitable as
			     an	argument to the	select(2) system call.	This
			     is	only of	interest if service implementors do
			     not call svc_run(), but rather do their own asyn-
			     chronous event processing.	 This variable is
			     read-only (do not pass its	address	to
			     select(2)!), yet it may change after calls	to
			     svc_getreqset() or	any creation routines.

     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 svc_getargs().  This
			     routine returns TRUE if the results were success-
			     fully freed, and FALSE otherwise.

     svc_getargs()	     A function	macro that decodes the arguments of an
			     RPC request associated with the RPC service
			     transport handle xprt.  The in argument is	the
			     address where the arguments will be placed;
			     inproc is the XDR routine used to decode the ar-
			     guments.  This routine returns TRUE if decoding
			     succeeds, and FALSE otherwise.

     svc_getreq_common()     This routine is called to handle a	request	on the
			     given file	descriptor.

     svc_getreq_poll()	     This routine is only of interest if a service im-
			     plementor does not	call svc_run(),	but instead
			     implements	custom asynchronous event processing.
			     It	is called when poll(2) has determined that an
			     RPC request has arrived on	some RPC file descrip-
			     tors; pollretval is the return value from poll(2)
			     and pfdp is the array of pollfd structures	on
			     which the poll(2) was done.  It is	assumed	to be
			     an	array large enough to contain the maximal num-
			     ber of descriptors	allowed.

     svc_getreqset()	     This routine is only of interest if a service im-
			     plementor does not	call svc_run(),	but instead
			     implements	custom asynchronous event processing.
			     It	is called when poll(2) has determined that an
			     RPC request has arrived on	some RPC file descrip-
			     tors; rdfds is the	resultant read file descriptor
			     bit mask.	The routine returns when all file de-
			     scriptors associated with the value of rdfds have
			     been serviced.

     svc_getrpccaller()	     The approved way of getting the network address
			     of	the caller of a	procedure associated with the
			     RPC service transport handle xprt.

     __svc_getcallercreds()  Warning: this macro is specific to	FreeBSD	and
			     thus not portable.	 This macro returns a pointer
			     to	a cmsgcred structure, defined in
			     <sys/socket.h>, identifying the calling client.
			     This only works if	the client is calling the
			     server over an AF_LOCAL socket.

     struct pollfd svc_pollset[FD_SETSIZE];
			     svc_pollset is an array of	pollfd structures de-
			     rived from	svc_fdset[].  It is suitable as	an ar-
			     gument to the poll(2) system call.	 The deriva-
			     tion of svc_pollset from svc_fdset	is made	in the
			     current implementation in svc_run().  Service im-
			     plementors	who do not call	svc_run() and who wish
			     to	use this array must perform this derivation
			     themselves.

     svc_run()		     This routine never	returns.  It waits for RPC re-
			     quests to arrive, and calls the appropriate ser-
			     vice procedure using svc_getreq_poll() when one
			     arrives.  This procedure is usually waiting for
			     the poll(2) system	call to	return.

     svc_sendreply()	     Called by an RPC service's	dispatch routine to
			     send the results of a remote procedure call.  The
			     xprt argument is the request's associated trans-
			     port handle; outproc is the XDR routine which is
			     used to encode the	results; and out is the	ad-
			     dress of the results.  This routine returns TRUE
			     if	it succeeds, FALSE otherwise.

SEE ALSO
     poll(2), select(2), rpc(3), rpc_svc_create(3), rpc_svc_err(3),
     rpc_svc_reg(3)

BSD				  May 3, 1993				   BSD

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