XDR_CREATE(3N)

NAME
xdr_destroy, xdrmem_create, xdrrec_create, xdrstdio_create - library routines for external data representation stream creation

DESCRIPTION

XDR library routines allow C programmers to describe arbitrary data structures in a machine-independent fashion. Protocols such as remote procedure calls (RPC) use these routines to describe the format of the data.

These routines deal with the creation of XDR streams. XDR streams have to be created before any data can be translated into XDR format.

  Routines

The XDR, CLIENT, and SVCXPRT data structures are defined in the RPC/XDR Library Definitions of the

#include <rpc/xdr.h>

void xdr_destroy(xdrs)
XDR *xdrs;

    Invoke the destroy routine associated with the XDR stream, xdrs. Destruction usually involves freeing private data structures associated with the stream. Using xdrs after invoking xdr_destroy() is undefined.

void xdrmem_create(xdrs, addr, size, op)
XDR *xdrs;
char *addr;
u_int size;
enum xdr_op op;

    This routine initializes the XDR stream object pointed to by xdrs. The stream's data is written to, or read from, a chunk of memory at location addr whose length is no more than size bytes long. size should be a multiple of 4. The op determines the direction of the XDR stream (either XDR_ENCODE, XDR_DECODE, or XDR_FREE).

void xdrrec_create(xdrs, sendsz, recvsz, handle, readit, writeit)
XDR *xdrs;
u_int sendsz, recvsz;
char *handle;
int (*readit) (), (*writeit) ();

    This routine initializes the XDR stream object pointed to by xdrs. The stream's data is written to a buffer of size sendsz; a value of zero indicates the system should use a suitable default. The stream's data is read from a buffer of size recvsz; it too can be set to a suitable default by passing a zero value. When a stream's output buffer is full, writeit is called. Similarly, when a stream's input buffer is empty, readit is called. The behavior of these two routines is similar to read(2V) and write(2V), except that handle is passed to the former routines as the first parameter. Note: The XDR stream's op field must be set by the caller. sendsz and recvsz should be multiples of 4.

    Warning: This XDR stream implements an intermediate record stream. Therefore there are additional bytes in the stream to provide record boundary information.

void xdrstdio_create(xdrs, filep, op)
XDR *xdrs;
FILE *filep;
enum xdr_op op;

    This routine initializes the XDR stream object pointed to by xdrs. The XDR stream data is written to, or read from, the Standard I/O stream filep. The parameter op determines the direction of the XDR stream (either XDR_ENCODE, XDR_DECODE, or XDR_FREE).

    Warning: The destroy routine associated with such XDR streams calls fflush() on the file stream, but never fclose(3V).

SEE ALSO
read(2V), write(2V), fclose(3V), xdr(3N), xdr_admin(3N), xdr_complex(3N), xdr_simple(3N)