RFC1833 Binding Protocols for ONC RPC Version 2.

RFC1832 XDR: External Data Representation Standard.

RFC1831 RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification Version 2.

RFC1790 An Agreement between the Internet Society and Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the Matter of ONC RPC and XDR Protocols.

RFC1057 RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol specification: Version 2.

RFC1045 VMTP: Versatile Message Transaction Protocol: Protocol specification.

RFC0708 Elements of a Distributed Programming System.

RFC0684 Commentary on procedure calling as a network protocol.

RFC0674 Procedure call documents: Version 2.

How do I... Use sockets? Do networking? Write client/server applications? []

Unix Programming FAQ Can I use SysV IPC at the same time as select or poll? []

Unix Programming FAQ General File handling (including pipes and sockets) []

Unix Programming FAQ How to manage multiple connections? []

Unix Programming FAQ How do I use select()? []

Unix Programming FAQ How do I use poll()? []

Unix Programming FAQ How can I tell when the other end of a connection shuts down? []

rpcinfo(8) - report RPC information {oss}

p5-XPC-0.2 - XML Procedure Call (XPC)

rpc - Remote Procedure Call implementation {oss}

nfssvc (2) - NFS services {oss}

getrpcent getrpcbyname getrpcbynumber endrpcent setrpcent (3) - get RPC entry {oss}

hosts_access hosts_ctl request_init request_set (3) - access control library {oss}

rcmd rresvport iruserok ruserok (3) - routines for returning a stream to a remote command {oss}

rcmd (3) - return a stream to a remote command as unprivileged {oss}

rexecl execlp execle exect execv execvp (3) - return stream to a remote command {oss}

getrpcport (3) - get RPC port number {oss}

callrpc clnt_broadcast clnt_call clnt_control clnt_create clnt_destroy clnt_freeres clnt_pcreateerror clnt_perrno clnt_perror clnt_spcreateerror clnt_sperrno clnt_sperror clntraw_create clnttcp_create clntudp_bufcreate clntudp_create clntudp_create cnlt_g - library routines for remote procedure calls {oss}

auth_destroy authnone_create authunix_create authunix_create_default (3) - library routines for remote procedure calls {oss}

htonl htons ntohl ntohs htobe32 htobe16 betoh32 betoh16 htole32 htole16 letoh32 letoh16 swap32 swap16 (3) - convert values between different byte orderings {oss}

swab (3) - swap adjacent bytes {oss}

xdr_array xdr_bool xdr_bytes xdr_char xdr_destroy xdr_double xdr_enum xdr_float xdr_free xdr_getpos xdr_inline xdr_int xdr_long xdrmem_create xdr_opaque xdr_pointer xdrrec_create xdrrec_endofrecord xdrrec_eof xdrrec_skiprecord xdr_reference xdr_setpos xdr - library routines for external data representation {oss}

mpich-1.2.3 - Message Passing Interface (MPI) Library

p5-PlRPC-0.2016 - Perl module for writing RPC servers and clients

xtl-1.4.1 - A library for R/W structured data to/from an external representation

Hilobyte.H - Extract high, low bytes from an int {oss}

rpc - Sun RPC Source {oss}

perlrpcgen - Generates Perl modules and server shells from RPC interface definitions. [Perl] {oss}

Parallel::PVM - The Parallel Virtual Machine message passing system. This module is an interface to the PVM library. [Perl] {oss}

RPC::Simple - Use SRPC (Simple Remote Procedure Calls) from Perl. [Perl] {oss}

NinjaRMI - Free implementation of Java Remote Method Invocation {BSL}

ILU - open extensible portable generalized RPC for many OSes {freely distributable}

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Remote System Information - Obtaining (or providing) system information like status, who is logged in, the local time, et al. Command - FAQs

See also: Identity Authentication

See also: Remote Process Creation and Control - Methods of starting and controlling processes remotely. (telnet, login, rexec, et al.)

See also: Client Server Implementation - clients and servers (listeners) in general. Technologies, frameworks

Local Process Communication

Host, service name, and address operations

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