Re: Equivalents to door_create(), door_call(), etc., under Linux

From: Nils O. Selåsdal (NOS_at_Utel.no)
Date: 06/28/04 

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 09:06:44 +0200

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:18:14 +0100, David W Noon wrote:

> Does anybody know of some synchronous RPC routines equivalent to
> door_create(), etc., that are available on Sun machines?
>
> These routines are a local-only RPC interface. They do not use socket
> services.
Doors are not standard on linux ,though there were some older
patches at http://www.rampant.org/doors/. You could use plain
SunRPC over unix domain sockets to do much the same though.

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