Describing and Encoding Remote Procedure Calls

This section describes procedure for describing and encoding remote procedure calls.

RPC provides subroutines for describing and encoding RPC call and reply messages, authentication, and port mappings:
Item Description
xdr_accepted_reply Encodes RPC reply messages.
xdr_authunix_parms Describes UNIX-style credentials.
xdr_callhdr Describes RPC call header messages.
xdr_callmsg Describes RPC call messages.
xdr_opaque_auth Describes RPC authentication messages.
xdr_rejected_reply Describes RPC message rejection replies.
xdr_replymsg Describes RPC message replies.