[Fwd: Re: STREAMS _I_CMD and pfiles TLI support [PSARC/2008/265 FastTrack timeout 04/23/2008]]

[Erik Nordmark]

Peter Memishian wrote:

>  > Is there any intent to eventually move these TLI uses over to sockets?
> 
> Certainly, but inertia is hard to overcome. 

It is probably a bit more than just inertia. I suspect most if not all 
of the applications are RPC applications. Such applications end up using 
TLI because that it how TI-RPC was designed and we document this fact.

For instance, we have APIs like svc_tli_create and clnt_tli_create which 
allows the application to pass in a TLI endpoint.

We also document the xp_fd field, but for that we (no longer) seem to 
explicitly say it is a TLI endpoint.

I would be nice if we could
  - Add sockets as an interface under the RPC library akin to how we
    have added door support
  - If possible switch the generic clnt_create and svc_create to use sockets
  - If possible deprecate svc_tli_create and clnt_tli_create.

    Erik