Hi Terry,
> In fact, IDL is separate from RPC. IDL is simply about the way in
> which you write you API apparently. The Standard uses it so everyone
> has open access to the API calls, regardless of platform.
Right, it defines how data maps to bits and what functions there are
that can handle it. Kind of like a platform-agnostic C header file with
knobs on.
ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/unpacked/samba_4_0_test/librpc/idl/preg.idl
I suspect it's something like Microsoft's DCOM that adds the
introspection stuff.
Cheers, Ralph.
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