On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 20:16 +0100, Terry Coles wrote:
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.
The free desktop way of doing this is D-Bus. The interface
description for your D-Bus
Hi Terry,
On Tuesday 11 Oct 2011, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
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?
AIUI, the IDL file is compiled into a 'type library' which is somehow
Ralph,
Since yesterday, I've followed up on the links you provided and had 'long and
meanigful' discussions with the guys who maintain the Standard. As a result,
I'm a bit more clued up than I was yesterday evening.
On Wednesday 12 Oct 2011, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
AIUI, the IDL file is
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.
Hi,
This query is a bit work and Windows related, but AFAIK crosses over into
Unix/Linux.
At work we help to maintain the IEEE 1641 Standard (http://www.eads-
tes.com/Standards/IEEE1641/IEEE1641.htm) and I am currently writing a
Validation Spec for compliant solutions.
Part of the Standard
Hi Terry,
Part of the Standard includes a requirement for support for Interface
Description Language
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_description_language) from the
Distributed Computing Environment Specification which is maintained by
The Open Group.
(That link's about IDLs in
On Tuesday 11 Oct 2011, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Part of the Standard includes a requirement for support for Interface
Description Language
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_description_language) from the
Distributed Computing Environment Specification which is maintained by
The Open
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
On Tuesday 11 Oct 2011, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
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
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