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1LIBTIRPC 0.1 FROM SUN'S TIRPCSRC 2.3 29 Aug 1994
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3This package contains SunLib's implementation of transport-independent
4RPC (TI-RPC) documentation.  This library forms a piece of the base of Open Network
5Computing (ONC), and is derived directly from the Solaris 2.3 source.
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7TI-RPC is an enhanced version of TS-RPC that requires the UNIX System V
8Transport Layer Interface (TLI) or an equivalent X/Open Transport Interface
9(XTI).  TI-RPC is on-the-wire compatible with the TS-RPC, which is supported
10by almost 70 vendors on all major operating systems.  TS-RPC source code
11(RPCSRC 4.0) remains available from several internet sites.
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13This release was a native source release, compatible for
14building on Solaris 2.3. It had been ported from FreeBSD 5.2.1 to GNU/Linux
15in 2004.
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17Applications linked with this release's librpc must link with the United
18States domestic version of libcrypt in order to resolve the cbc_crypt() and
19ecb_crypt() functions.  These routines are used with Secure RPC however all
20RPC programs that link with this release's librpc will need to link with the
21domestic libcrypt.
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23WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE: TIRPCSRC 2.3 FROM SUN
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25The previous release was TIRPCSRC 2.0.
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271.      This release is based on Solaris 2.3.  The previous release was
28	based on Solaris 2.0.  This release contains a siginificant number of
29	bug fixes and other enhancements over TIRPCSRC 2.0.
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312.      The RPC library is thread safe for all client-side interfaces
32	(clnt_create, clnt_call, etc.).  The server-side interfaces
33	(svc_create, svc_run, etc.) are not thread safe in this release. The
34	server-side interfaces will be made thread safe in the next release of
35	TIRPCSRC.  Please see the manual pages for details about which
36	interfaces are thread safe.
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383.      As part of the work to make the RPC library thread-safe, rpcgen has
39	been enhanced to generate thread-safe RPC stubs (the -M option).  Note
40	that this modifies the call-signature for the stub functions; the
41	procedure calling the RPC stub must now pass to the stub a pointer to
42	an allocated structure where results will be placed by the stub.  See
43	the rpcgen manual page and the rpcgen Programming Guide for details.
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