Very Computer

I have worked with RPC's in a singly threaded environment. I have also written
multi-threaded applications under SOLARIS 2.3. What I like to do is to use
RPC's for a multi-threaded server. Reading the RPC docs in SOLARIS I understand
that the client side of RPC's is MT-Safe. But the server side, for most part,
is NOT. I guess one can use the thread's syncronization primitives to work
around that but that tends to serialize the server ( and hence not much use
of the multi-threaded aspect). I have would like to ask:

a) Is there a fix/update/upgrade to server-side RPC routines to make
   them MT-Safe ?

b) If not, is this problem being addressed in SOLARIS 2.4 (when is that comming
   out ?) ?

c) Have I missed something in the documentation or otherwise  ?

d) Any other comments ?

I can see alot of uses for a multi-threaded RPC based server and I am sure
SunSoft folks must have thought of that too So I am sure this problem would
be addressed pretty soon (if not already)!

Sincerely,

Sohail

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: a) Is there a fix/update/upgrade to server-side RPC routines to make
:    them MT-Safe ?
Don't think so.
: b) If not, is this problem being addressed in SOLARIS 2.4 (when is that comming
:    out ?) ?
Yes.  August.
: c) Have I missed something in the documentation or otherwise  ?

: d) Any other comments ?
I haven't written it myself, but they SAY it's easy...

: I can see alot of uses for a multi-threaded RPC based server and I am sure
: SunSoft folks must have thought of that too So I am sure this problem would
: be addressed pretty soon (if not already)!
So can we.  NFS is MT now.  NIS will be.

: Sincerely,

: Sohail

-Bil
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