Test Suite for Sun/ONC RPC

Gene Michael Stover

created Saturday, 2006 August 12
updated Tuesday, 2006 August 15

Copyright © 2006 Gene Michael Stover. All rights reserved. Permission to copy, store, & view this document unmodified & in its entirety is granted.

Contents

• 1 What is this?
• 2 Obtaining
• A. Other File Formats
• Bibliography

1 What is this?

This is under construction. It's not fit for human consumption yet. I recommend ignorning it for now. Try back here in 2006 September. - Gene Stover

Sun/ONC RPC is defined in RFC 4506 [Eis06], RFC 1831 [Sri95a], & RFC 1833 [Sri95b].

I have written a suite of programs which can be used to test an ONC RPC installation. It works on unix¹ & Microsloth Winders.

This is the documentation for that test suite.

2 Obtaining

When it's finished, I'll supply archive files so you can download the whole suite as one file. For now, download the files individually. Here are links in a list which shows where they fit in the directory structure.

• Makefile for unix
• Makefile.w32 for Winders
• README.txt very short description
• bin/
• build.bat entry point to compiling the system for Winders
• lib/
• src/
  • make-data.c
  • test0000.c
  • test0001.c
  • test0002.c
  • test0003.c
  • test0004.c
  • test0005.c
  • test0006.c
  • test0007.c
  • test0007.data
  • test0008.c
  • test0009.c
  • test0010.c
  • test0011.c
  • test0012.c
  • test0015.c
  • test0015.data
  • test0016.c
  • test0020.c
  • test0020.data
  • this.h
• tmp/

Under normal circumstances, do not run make-data! It creates data files used by some of the other tests, & it assumes it's running on a system which has a working RPC system. So you don't run it very often, & when you do, you must be careful about where you run it.

A. Other File Formats

• This document is available in multi-file HTML format at
  http://cybertiggyr.com/gene/test-rpc/.

• This document is available in Pointless Document Format (PDF) at
  http://cybertiggyr.com/gene/test-rpc/test-rpc.pdf.

Bibliography

Eis06

M. Eisler.
Rfc 4506: Xdr: External data representation standard.
RFC Editor, May 2006.
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4506.txt.

Sri95a

R. Srinivasan.
Rfc 1831: Rpc: Remote procedure call protocol specification version 2.
RFC Editor, August 1995.
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1831.txt.

Sri95b

R. Srinivasan.
Rfc 1833: Binding protocols for onc rpc version 2.
RFC Editor, August 1995.
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1833.txt.