Commit 401a76dc authored by Martin v. Löwis's avatar Martin v. Löwis

Patch #469517: Info about rpcgen compilers.

parent 875eeaa1
...@@ -23,3 +23,9 @@ Other clients are tested similarly. ...@@ -23,3 +23,9 @@ Other clients are tested similarly.
For hostname, use e.g. wuarchive.wustl.edu or gatekeeper.dec.com (two For hostname, use e.g. wuarchive.wustl.edu or gatekeeper.dec.com (two
hosts that are known to export NFS filesystems with little restrictions). hosts that are known to export NFS filesystems with little restrictions).
There are now two different RPC compilers:
1) Wim Lewis rpcgen.py found on http://www.omnigroup.com/~wiml/soft/stale-index.html#python.
2) Peter Åstrands rpcgen.py, which is part of "pynfs" (http://www.cendio.se/~peter/pynfs/).
# Mount RPC client -- RFC 1094 (NFS), Appendix A # Mount RPC client -- RFC 1094 (NFS), Appendix A
# This module demonstrates how to write your own RPC client in Python. # This module demonstrates how to write your own RPC client in Python.
# Since there is no RPC compiler for Python (yet), you must first # When this example was written, there was no RPC compiler for
# create classes derived from Packer and Unpacker to handle the data # Python. Without such a compiler, you must first create classes
# types for the server you want to interface to. You then write the # derived from Packer and Unpacker to handle the data types for the
# client class. If you want to support both the TCP and the UDP # server you want to interface to. You then write the client class.
# version of a protocol, use multiple inheritance as shown below. # If you want to support both the TCP and the UDP version of a
# protocol, use multiple inheritance as shown below.
import rpc import rpc
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