LIBTIRPC 0.1 FROM SUN'S TIRPCSRC 2.3 29 Aug 1994

This package contains SunLib's implementation of transport-independent

RPC (TI-RPC) documentation.  This library forms a piece of the base of Open Network

Computing (ONC), and is derived directly from the Solaris 2.3 source.

TI-RPC is an enhanced version of TS-RPC that requires the UNIX System V

Transport Layer Interface (TLI) or an equivalent X/Open Transport Interface

(XTI).  TI-RPC is on-the-wire compatible with the TS-RPC, which is supported

by almost 70 vendors on all major operating systems.  TS-RPC source code

(RPCSRC 4.0) remains available from several internet sites.

This release was a native source release, compatible for

building on Solaris 2.3. It had been ported from FreeBSD 5.2.1 to GNU/Linux 

in 2004.

Applications linked with this release's librpc must link with the United

States domestic version of libcrypt in order to resolve the cbc_crypt() and

ecb_crypt() functions.  These routines are used with Secure RPC however all

RPC programs that link with this release's librpc will need to link with the

domestic libcrypt.  

WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE: TIRPCSRC 2.3 FROM SUN

The previous release was TIRPCSRC 2.0.

1.      This release is based on Solaris 2.3.  The previous release was

	based on Solaris 2.0.  This release contains a siginificant number of

	bug fixes and other enhancements over TIRPCSRC 2.0.

2.      The RPC library is thread safe for all client-side interfaces

	(clnt_create, clnt_call, etc.).  The server-side interfaces

	(svc_create, svc_run, etc.) are not thread safe in this release. The

	server-side interfaces will be made thread safe in the next release of

	TIRPCSRC.  Please see the manual pages for details about which

	interfaces are thread safe.

3.      As part of the work to make the RPC library thread-safe, rpcgen has

	been enhanced to generate thread-safe RPC stubs (the -M option).  Note

	that this modifies the call-signature for the stub functions; the

	procedure calling the RPC stub must now pass to the stub a pointer to

	an allocated structure where results will be placed by the stub.  See

	the rpcgen manual page and the rpcgen Programming Guide for details.