By convention, the first version number of the PROG program is referred to as PROGVERS_ORIG, and the most recent version is PROGVERS. For example, the programmer can create a new version of the user program that returns an unsigned short value rather than a long value. If the programmer names this version RUSERSVERS_SHORT , then the following program permits the server to support both programs:
if (!svc_register(transp, RUSERSPROG, RUSERSVERS_ORIG, nuser, IPPROTO_TCP)) { fprintf(stderr, "can't register RUSER service\n"); exit(1); } if (!svc_register(transp, RUSERSPROG, RUSERSVERS_SHORT, nuser, IPPROTO_TCP)) { fprintf(stderr, "can't register RUSER service\n"); exit(1); }
Both versions can be handled by the same C procedure, as in the following example using the nusers procedure:
nuser(rqstp, transp) struct svc_req *rqstp; SVCXPRT *transp; { unsigned long nusers; unsigned short nusers2;
switch (rqstp->rq_proc) { case NULLPROC: if (!svc_sendreply(transp, xdr_void, 0)) { fprintf(stderr, "can't reply to RPC call\n"); return (1); } return; case RUSERSPROC_NUM:
/* * Code here to compute the number of users * and assign it to the variable nusers */ nusers2 = nusers; switch (rqstp->rq_vers) { case RUSERSVERS_ORIG: if (!svc_sendreply(transp, xdr_u_long, &nusers)) { fprintf(stderr,"can't reply to RPC call\n"); } break;
case RUSERSVERS_SHORT: if (!svc_sendreply(transp, xdr_u_short, &nusers2)) { fprintf(stderr,"can't reply to RPC call\n"); } break; } default: svcerr_noproc(transp); return; } }