1 /* @(#)pmap_prot2.c 2.1 88/07/29 4.0 RPCSRC */
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30 #if !defined(lint) && defined(SCCSIDS)
31 static char sccsid
[] = "@(#)pmap_prot2.c 1.3 87/08/11 Copyr 1984 Sun Micro";
36 * Protocol for the local binder service, or pmap.
38 * Copyright (C) 1984, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
41 #include <rpc/types.h>
43 #include <rpc/pmap_prot.h>
47 * What is going on with linked lists? (!)
48 * First recall the link list declaration from pmap_prot.h:
51 * struct pmap pml_map;
52 * struct pmaplist *pml_map;
55 * Compare that declaration with a corresponding xdr declaration that
56 * is (a) pointer-less, and (b) recursive:
58 * typedef union switch (bool_t) {
65 * case FALSE: struct {};
68 * Notice that the xdr declaration has no nxt pointer while
69 * the C declaration has no bool_t variable. The bool_t can be
70 * interpreted as ``more data follows me''; if FALSE then nothing
71 * follows this bool_t; if TRUE then the bool_t is followed by
72 * an actual struct pmap, and then (recursively) by the
73 * xdr union, pamplist_t.
75 * This could be implemented via the xdr_union primitive, though this
76 * would cause a one recursive call per element in the list. Rather than do
77 * that we can ``unwind'' the recursion
78 * into a while loop and do the union arms in-place.
80 * The head of the list is what the C programmer wishes to past around
81 * the net, yet is the data that the pointer points to which is interesting;
82 * this sounds like a job for xdr_reference!
85 xdr_pmaplist(xdrs
, rp
)
87 register struct pmaplist
**rp
;
90 * more_elements is pre-computed in case the direction is
91 * XDR_ENCODE or XDR_FREE. more_elements is overwritten by
92 * xdr_bool when the direction is XDR_DECODE.
95 register int freeing
= (xdrs
->x_op
== XDR_FREE
);
96 register struct pmaplist
**next
;
99 more_elements
= (bool_t
)(*rp
!= NULL
);
100 if (! xdr_bool(xdrs
, &more_elements
))
103 return (TRUE
); /* we are done */
105 * the unfortunate side effect of non-recursion is that in
106 * the case of freeing we must remember the next object
107 * before we free the current object ...
110 next
= &((*rp
)->pml_next
);
111 if (! xdr_reference(xdrs
, (caddr_t
*)rp
,
112 (u_int
)sizeof(struct pmaplist
), xdr_pmap
))
114 rp
= (freeing
) ? next
: &((*rp
)->pml_next
);