On Aug 12, 2009, at 8:49 PM, Tim Newsham wrote:
Am I totally missing something or hasn't been the binary RPC
of that style been dead ever since SUNRPC? Hasn't the eulogy
been delivered by CORBA? Haven't folks realized that S-exprs
are really quite good for data serialization in the heterogeneous
environments (especially when they are called JSON) and you
really shouldn't be made to figure out how large is the integer
on a host foo?
Just because the world is full of XML zealots does not mean that XDR
(ONC RPC), NDR (DCE RPC)
Well, they sure smell that way. The only non trivial application of
SUN RPC still
in existence that I know of is NFS (plus its evil twins). I would be
very curious
to know if you have examples of interesting apps using both types of
RPC.
and others are dead. Neither of these makes you figure out how
large the integer on host foo is (thats half the point).
What's your method of portably stuffing a *native* 64 int (the one
from the ILP64 type of
ABIs)?
I personally like the XDR standard (I can do without NDR and BER/DER).
Here's an honest question: do you really like debugging rpcgen emitted
code?
Thanks,
Roman.
