freebsd-dev/lib/libc/rpc/getrpcent.3
Alfred Perlstein 8360efbd6c Bring in a hybrid of SunSoft's transport-independent RPC (TI-RPC) and
associated changes that had to happen to make this possible as well as
bugs fixed along the way.

  Bring in required TLI library routines to support this.

  Since we don't support TLI we've essentially copied what NetBSD
  has done, adding a thin layer to emulate direct the TLI calls
  into BSD socket calls.

  This is mostly from Sun's tirpc release that was made in 1994,
  however some fixes were backported from the 1999 release (supposedly
  only made available after this porting effort was underway).

  The submitter has agreed to continue on and bring us up to the
  1999 release.

  Several key features are introduced with this update:
    Client calls are thread safe. (1999 code has server side thread
    safe)
    Updated, a more modern interface.

  Many userland updates were done to bring the code up to par with
  the recent RPC API.

  There is an update to the pthreads library, a function
  pthread_main_np() was added to emulate a function of Sun's threads
  library.

  While we're at it, bring in NetBSD's lockd, it's been far too
  long of a wait.

  New rpcbind(8) replaces portmap(8) (supporting communication over
  an authenticated Unix-domain socket, and by default only allowing
  set and unset requests over that channel). It's much more secure
  than the old portmapper.

  Umount(8), mountd(8), mount_nfs(8), nfsd(8) have also been upgraded
  to support TI-RPC and to support IPV6.

  Umount(8) is also fixed to unmount pathnames longer than 80 chars,
  which are currently truncated by the Kernel statfs structure.

Submitted by: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
Manpage review: ru
Secure RPC implemented by: wpaul
2001-03-19 12:50:13 +00:00

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.\" @(#)getrpcent.3n 2.2 88/08/02 4.0 RPCSRC; from 1.11 88/03/14 SMI
.\" $NetBSD: getrpcent.3,v 1.6 1998/02/05 18:49:06 perry Exp $
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd December 14, 1987
.Dt GETRPCENT 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm getrpcent ,
.Nm getrpcbyname ,
.Nm getrpcbynumber ,
.Nm endrpcent ,
.Nm setrpcent
.Nd get RPC entry
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <rpc/rpc.h>
.Ft struct rpcent *
.Fn getrpcent void
.Ft struct rpcent *
.Fn getrpcbyname "char *name"
.Ft struct rpcent *
.Fn getrpcbynumber "int number"
.Ft void
.Fn setrpcent "int stayopen"
.Ft void
.Fn endrpcent void
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Fn getrpcent ,
.Fn getrpcbyname ,
and
.Fn getrpcbynumber
each return a pointer to an object with the
following structure
containing the broken-out
fields of a line in the rpc program number data base,
.Pa /etc/rpc :
.Bd -literal
struct rpcent {
char *r_name; /* name of server for this rpc program */
char **r_aliases; /* alias list */
long r_number; /* rpc program number */
};
.Ed
.Pp
The members of this structure are:
.Bl -tag -width r_aliases -offset indent
.It Va r_name
The name of the server for this rpc program.
.It Va r_aliases
A zero terminated list of alternate names for the rpc program.
.It Va r_number
The rpc program number for this service.
.El
.Pp
.Fn getrpcent
reads the next line of the file, opening the file if necessary.
.Pp
.Fn setrpcent
opens and rewinds the file. If the
.Fa stayopen
flag is non-zero,
the net data base will not be closed after each call to
.Fn getrpcent
(either directly, or indirectly through one of
the other
.Dq getrpc
calls).
.Pp
.Fn endrpcent
closes the file.
.Pp
.Fn getrpcbyname
and
.Fn getrpcbynumber
sequentially search from the beginning
of the file until a matching rpc program name or
program number is found, or until end-of-file is encountered.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /etc/rpc -compact
.It Pa /etc/rpc
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr rpc 5 ,
.Xr rpcinfo 8 ,
.Xr ypserv 8
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
A
.Dv NULL
pointer is returned on
.Dv EOF
or error.
.Sh BUGS
All information
is contained in a static area
so it must be copied if it is
to be saved.