HP-UX 11i June 2001 Release Notes

Programming
HP DCE/9000 (new at 11i original release)
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HP DCE/9000 (new at 11i original release)
HP Distributed Computing Environment (HP DCE/9000) Version 1.8
provides a high-quality, comprehensive, standards-based framework to
develop, administer, and use distributed applications.
Kernel threads application development is now supported on HP-UX.
The 32-bit version of the kernel threads DCE library (libdcekt) is now
part of HP-UX base operating system. The 64-bit version of libdcekt is
also included.
NOTE It should be noted that only the DCE library (libdcekt) has been ported
to 64-bit while the binaries and daemons which are part of the DCE
products are still 32-bit.
The advantages of moving to 64 bit can be found under
http://www.software.hp.com/STK/hpuxoverview.html#64-Bit.
The distinction between the International and US/Canada version of
DCE components has been removed. That is, the 56-bit Data Encryption
Standard (DES) which was earlier restricted to US/Canada is now
available for all customers. This means there will only be one version of
the DCE library and dced daemon which is based on the 56-bit DES
version.
NOTE The number of LAN interfaces supported by DCED is limited to 32 and
the LAN interfaces supported by CDS is 12. If the number of LAN
interfaces is more than 32, the environment variable
RPC_SUPPORTED_NETADDRS can be used to specify the list of 32 LAN
interfaces that are used by the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) application.
There are a number of new environment variables that have been added
to support Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) operations and to enable
better usability:
• RPC_PREFERRED_PROTSEQ: This variable is used to set the preferred
protocol sequence.