Intro(3R)                       ONC/NFS 5.4.2                      Intro(3R)


NAME
       intro - introduction to RPC service library functions and protocols

DESCRIPTION
       These functions constitute the RPC service library.  Most of these
       describe RPC protocols. The PROTOCOL section describes how to access
       the protocol description file.  This file may be compiled with
       rpcgen(1) to produce data definitions and XDR routines.  Precompiled
       versions of header files sometimes exist as <rpcsvc/*.h> and
       precompiled XDR routines and programming interfaces to the protocols
       sometimes exist in librpcsvc.  Warning: some of these header files
       and XDR routines were hand-written because they existed before
       rpcgen.  They do not correspond to their protocol description file.
       In order to get the link editor to load this library, use the
       -lrpcsvc option of cc(1).  Information about the availability of
       programming interfaces to these protocols is available under
       PROGRAMMING section of each manual page.

       Some routines in the librpcsvc library do not correspond to
       protocols, but are useful utilities for RPC programming. These are
       distinguished by the presence of the SYNOPSIS section instead of the
       usual PROTOCOL section.

   List of Standard RPC Services
         Name          Description
         bootparam()   bootparam protocol
         getrpcport()  get RPC port number
         mount()       keep track of remotely mounted filesystems
         rex()         remote execution protocol
         rnusers()     return information about users on remote machines
         rquota()      implement quotas on remote machines
         rusers()      return information about users on remote machines
         rwall()       write to specified remote machines
         secret()      get secret key
         sm_inter()    status monitor protocol
         spray()       scatter data in order to check the network
         yp()          Network Information Service protocol
         yppasswd()    update user password in Network Information Service

SEE ALSO
       intro(3).
















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