[CI] Re: dropping XDR from ICS param attributes

[Aneesh K. <ane...@gm...>]

On 5/11/06, Aneesh Kumar <ane...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi John and Brian,
>
> What is the specific requirment of using XDR within ICS. ? I see
> structures like pt_regs being encoded using ics directly. As per our
> last discussion most of these structures are marked OOL. So with XDR
> we encode them with XDR routines and out then as OOL data. But then if
> all the nodes involved in clustering are of same endian do we need to
> encode them using XDR routines ?
>

After looking at the code again i guess i understand what is
happening. For structures carrying pointers to another data type we
need the XDR param type.

I have dropped from the latest ICS code the openssirpcgen. I am right
now looking at NFS and understanding how to do the work the same way
they are doing.


-aneesh