Specifications

Remote Procedure Call Programming Guide Page 33
The following pair of programs illustrate how to use the gettransient() routine. The client makes an RPC
call to the server, passing it a transient program number. Then the client waits around to receive a callback
from the server at that program number. The server registers the program EXAMPLEPROG so that it can
receive the RPC call informing it of the callback program number. Then at some random time (on receiv-
ing an ALRM signal in this example), it sends a callback RPC call, using the program number it received
earlier.
/*
* client
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <rpc/rpc.h>
int callback();
char hostname[256];
main()
{
int x, ans, s;
SVCXPRT *xprt;
gethostname(hostname, sizeof(hostname));
s = RPC_ANYSOCK;
x = gettransient(IPPROTO_UDP, 1, &s);
fprintf(stderr, "client gets prognum %d\n", x);
if ((xprt = svcudp_create(s)) == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr, "rpc_server: svcudp_create\n");
exit(1);
}
/* protocol is 0 - gettransient does registering
*/
(void)svc_register(xprt, x, 1, callback, 0);
ans = callrpc(hostname, EXAMPLEPROG, EXAMPLEVERS,
EXAMPLEPROC_CALLBACK, xdr_int, &x, xdr_void, 0);
if ((enum clnt_stat) ans != RPC_SUCCESS) {
fprintf(stderr, "call: ");
clnt_perrno(ans);
fprintf(stderr, "\n");
}
svc_run();
fprintf(stderr, "Error: svc_run shouldn’t return\n");
}
callback(rqstp, transp)
register struct svc_req *rqstp;
register SVCXPRT *transp;
{
switch (rqstp->rq_proc) {
case 0:
if (!svc_sendreply(transp, xdr_void, 0)) {
fprintf(stderr, "err: exampleprog\n");
return (1);
}
return (0);
case 1:
if (!svc_getargs(transp, xdr_void, 0)) {
svcerr_decode(transp);
return (1);
}