RpcWriter(3I)

💖 RpcWriter(3I) — InterViews Reference Manual 💖

okay bestie, gather round, we're talking about RpcWriter from the InterViews manual (section 3I, iykyk) 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

RpcWriter — the girl who writes RPC requests to a server 💌

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <Dispatch/rpcwriter.h>

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So an RpcWriter — and lowkey this is actually an instance of a class derived from RpcWriter, keep up — writes RPC requests to a server. that's her whole job. that's the gig. 💅

And like, if you're making a derived class, the move is to add member functions that send RPC requests matching your RPC service's protocol. that's the assignment, bestie. no cap. ✨

🎀 CONSTRUCTORS 🎀

here's the lineup, all four of them, iconic behaviour:

RpcWriter(const char* path, boolean fatal, boolean binary)
RpcWriter(const char* host, int port, boolean fatal, boolean binary)
RpcWriter(int fd, boolean fatal, boolean binary)
RpcWriter(rpcstream* server)

• open a connection to an RPC service at its registered host name and port number — orrr give the host name and port number you need to open a connection to the RPC service, or give the number of an already-open file descriptor, or give the address of an already-open rpcstream (that's a connection, bestie). Pick your fighter. 💖
• negotiate the I/O format — binary or formatted, whichever, but only if you're opening a connection. if you're not opening one, no negotiating happening, periodt.
• fatal — terminate the program if errors should be fatal. that's the vibe check. it's giving dramatic but honestly valid. 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• RpcHdr(3I)
• RpcRegistry(3I)
• rpcstream(3I)

go read those next, you'll be obsessed 🧚

mwah 💋 that's the whole page. this one comes to you from the InterViews era, dated 27 March 1991 — yeah she's vintage, she's a classic, and she still ate. 👑✨