DB design document

Al B. Snell alaric@alaric-snell.com
Fri, 22 Dec 2000 15:55:36 +0000 (GMT)


On 22 Dec 2000, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Also, it's not that hard to create your own transport with security.
> A simple extention to rpc_tcp.c to build TCP-based transports is all
> you really need.  I've done it once before, and it works well.
> Luckily, the RPC interface is standardized across all systems so we
> could take the RPC code from GLibc (which happens to be GPL'ed ;),
> extend it, and it should work against any other RPC implementation.

Sweeet!

> > Mmmmm, my laptop (NetBSD 1.5) supports RPC over IPv6 - I was using it for
> > NFS mounts on the home LAN today.
> 
> Not surprising.  RPC should be transport agnostic.

Yep, but somebody still has to write the bindings :-)

> -derek

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