Remote procedure

Question

What does the developer now have to do in order to write a program that uses the remote procedure?

Answer 1

Now, the developer has to the followings;

After the server program is created, it is copied and installed on a remote machine and run. When the machines are homogeneous, then the server binary can just be copied. When they are not homogeneous, the server source files must be copied to and compiled on the remote machine.

Server processes generated with rpcgen always run in the background. We do not have to follow the server's invocation with an ampersand (&). Servers generated by rpcgen can also be invoked by port monitors like listen() and inetd(), instead of from the command line.

Thereafter, a user on local can print a message on the console of machine remote as follows:
local$ ConvertCurrency “$”  “E”  50