Hi Terry, > > I rarely hear of it anymore. DCE originated outside of MS and they > > used bits of it. There's bound to be legacy Unix stuff still based > > on it and some new in-house code by existing users may continue > > using it. > > So how do Unix/Linux progams export their interfaces? In MS > VisualStudio, I can click on a function or method and right-click to > get the interface.
Sorry, I don't know. You'd have to find a DCE IDL-using program, e.g. one doing some DCE RPC I guess, and see what it offers. The textual IDL file would be my first thought, or are you thinking there's a way to interrogate a peer to determine the interface it offers at run-time? It seems there is a big user still about today; Samba since it has to use MS-RPC which is derived from DCE/RPC, whether it's compatible I don't know. This should be an interesting read. http://kganugapati.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/a-history-of-ms-rpc-and-open-source-equivalents/ I also found http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/dcerpc/dcerpc-46/dcerpc/include/dce/rpc.idl suggesting it may be used there. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-11-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
