Linux® Socket Programming

Chapter 15. Network Encapsulation with Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs)

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Revisiting the OSI Model

• Comparing Network and Procedural Programming

• Supplying Middleware Methods

• Creating RPCs with rpcgen

• Creating Non-Stateless Calls with Open Connections

• Summary: Creating an RPC Toolset

Looking from a developer-user perspective, knowing all the eccentricities of network programming may be more laborious than you want. Sometimes, you or your peers (the developer-users) simply want to focus on the development of the programs at hand and leave the network details to established libraries or tools. Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) fit that bill perfectly.

RPCs handle all the connection and data translation for your developer-users. From the perspective ...