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Remote Procedure Calls

Issue 42

From Issue #42
October 1997

Oct 01, 1997  By Ed Petron
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A thorough introduction to RPC for programmers of distributed systems.
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Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 11/06/2010 - 08:29.

What is difference between RPC in Windows and that of LINUX?

the steps and content are

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 09/06/2010 - 06:10.

the steps and content are good..but if clear picture about the running RPC if given would have been very useful...any how thank u all the information about RPC...

About Version

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Submitted by Ravi Khadgi (not verified) on Mon, 02/23/2009 - 12:25.

I'm little bit confused with the version. If we make any changes to our program, then how we update the version. Can anyone give an example for this?
You can take the following example:
version 1: adds two floating point numbers and returns floating point result
version 2(updated): returns the rounded value

regarding the rpc

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 12/03/2007 - 02:09.

Thanks a lot for the article that you have presented. It was a lot of information. I would like to know is there any standard rpc mechanism to know about the services running over a particular machine. I need such a program to know about the processes running on a particular machine. It would be great to have your feedbacks regarding the same.

Works between ARM linux and x86 linux

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 08/23/2007 - 11:25.

Hi,

Thanks for posting the code. I tested it with server on arm-linux (Stargate xbow) and client on x86 linux. Cross compiling the code for arm-linux( just the server side files) and running /sbin/portmap on stargate will allow the rpc to register.

The program works well for C and C++ as well.

How to get ravg.c file...the

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Submitted by Bhupesh Chawda (not verified) on Sun, 04/15/2007 - 06:59.

How to get ravg.c file...the makefile has no rule to get it...please excuse me if its a silly question..thanx

ravg.c is the code from

gigi's picture
Submitted by gigi (not verified) on Tue, 11/17/2009 - 14:24.

ravg.c is the code from listing 4
avg_proc.c is the code from listing 3

The code works

Tushar's picture
Submitted by Tushar (not verified) on Thu, 02/15/2007 - 00:41.

It is really very useful. I am a new comer in Unix [Linux], and could develop a server/client application on RPC using this code. Thank you, Ed.

I've been reading up on RPC

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Submitted by South Aussie (not verified) on Mon, 06/26/2006 - 22:27.

I've been reading up on RPC to implement it for our project, but this is the first tutorial I've found that presents it in a clear and readable manner and where the example code actually WORKS.
Thanks for a well written article, I wish there were more like it.

good introduction, with working program..

prashant's picture
Submitted by prashant (not verified) on Sun, 01/08/2006 - 07:35.

1) link of tutorial on makefile will add its value..
i find this a good one

http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/Make/index.html

2)while excuting makefile "/n" creates problem.. i have deleted it from makefile and necessary file got generated..
3) try running server by ./avg_ser
and by client by ./ravg in seperate terminal..
4) i feel strongly that comment should be provided in avg_proc.c,ravg.c..
at last i am much thankful for this exceptionaly simple running tutorial..

Re: Remote Procedure Calls

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 06/23/2004 - 02:00.

Thanks a lot. I'm a chilean engineering student and your article has been very useful for me since it explain very clearly what RPCs are and what are they used for.

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