The directory TIRPC contains port of SunOS-5 tirpc2.3,
TLI emulation library and utilities for linux-2.1.

TIRPC is standard in SVR4 world, it replaced old poor
RPC4.0 and contains a lot of good news:

- true security.
- true transport independence. My port is able to make RPC
  via UNIX sockets, IPv6 extension can be made for 30min
  (provided IPv6 analogues for gethostbyname/addr already work)
- asynchronous RPC.
- multithreading.

I propose to replace currently obsolete RPC4.0 with TIRPC2.3.

This port works for two years at INR and I believe it is stable.

NOTE: It contains TLI emulation library also.

Original Sun distribution can be found at
playground.sun.com:/pub/rpc/tirpcsrc2.3.tar.Z.
It contains not only library source, but also good
manual (Postcript), describing TIRPC and its differences of RPC4.0

Long key extension for Solaris-2.3,4,5,5.1 is available too.

Alexey Kuznetsov.
kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru