[Libvir] remote access ?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 12:43:53PM -0400, Mark Johnson wrote:
> > Yes. The wire protocol is 32/64 invariant.
> >
> > > The reason I ask is because I saw some references to longs..
> > > For example, in xdr_remote_node_get_info_ret()
> >
> > I must admit to being puzzelled as to why rpcgen decided to use
> > IXDR_GET_LONG there. All the rest of the code in that function is
> > using int, and the protocol is defined to be int.
> 
> I'll have to go back and check which one I was compiling
> at the time.. Maybe it uses that for 32-bit only which should't
> be a problem...

The remote_protocol.c/h  files are generated from remote_protocol.x
using rpcgen. That said, we actually distribute the generated files
and keep them in CVS, since the protocol doesn't change & we prefer
to have known tested code, rather than whatever rpcgen decides to
generate per OS. If you do see problems it could of course be a bug
in the rpcgen tool we used, so may be worth deleting the .c/h files
and seeing if the Solaris rpcgen does a better job.

Dan
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