Re: The joy of Linux

On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 22:30:47 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

On 24 Oct 2024 17:02:02 GMT, rbowman wrote:
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RS6000 is big endian and the ONC-RPC XDR encoding is big endian across
the network. The Linux boxes would swap the order when decoding the
XDR.

>
Linux runs on hardware of both kinds of endianness. This is why you have
functions like htons/htonl etc

 
Those functions predate linux.

Yes, and they wouldn't be too helpful when dealing with XDR. That comes
with its own set of data types and functions.

https://fiona.dmcs.pl/rso/du/onc-rpc5.html

It's old and clunky but having worked with both I don't know if it's any
worse than Google's protobuf invention,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Buffers