diff -r ffa851df0825 -r 2fb8b9db1c86 symbian-qemu-0.9.1-12/python-2.6.1/Demo/rpc/README --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/symbian-qemu-0.9.1-12/python-2.6.1/Demo/rpc/README Fri Jul 31 15:01:17 2009 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +This is a Python interface to Sun RPC, designed and implemented mostly +by reading the Internet RFCs about the subject. + +*** NOTE: xdr.py has evolved into the standard module xdrlib.py *** + +There are two library modules, xdr.py and rpc.py, and several example +clients: mountclient.py, nfsclient.py, and rnusersclient.py, +implementing the NFS Mount protocol, (part of) the NFS protocol, and +the "rnusers" protocol (used by rusers(1)), respectively. The latter +demonstrates the use of broadcast via the Port mapper's CALLIT +procedure. + +There is also a way to create servers in Python. + +To test the nfs client, run it from the shell with something like this: + + python -c 'import nfsclient; nfsclient.test()' [hostname [filesystemname]] + +When called without a filesystemname, it lists the filesystems at the +host; default host is the local machine. + +Other clients are tested similarly. + +For hostname, use e.g. wuarchive.wustl.edu or gatekeeper.dec.com (two +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/).