Open System Services Porting Guide (G06.24+, H06.03+)
Table Of Contents
- What’s New in This Manual
- About This Manual
- 1 Introduction to Porting
- 2 The Development Environment
- 3 Useful Porting Tools
- 4 Interoperating Between User Environments
- Purpose of Interoperability
- The OSS User Environment
- OSS Commands for the Guardian User
- Guardian Commands for the UNIX User
- OSS Pathname and Guardian Filename Conversions
- Running the OSS Shell and Commands From TACL
- Running Guardian Commands From the OSS Shell
- Running OSS Processes With Guardian Attributes
- Using OSS Commands to Manage Guardian Objects
- 5 Interoperating Between Programming Environments
- 6 OSS Porting Considerations
- 7 Porting UNIX Applications to the OSS Environment
- 8 Migrating Guardian Applications to the OSS Environment
- General Migration Guidelines
- C Compiler Issues for Guardian Programs
- Using New and Extended Guardian Procedures
- Using OSS Functions in a Guardian Program
- Interoperating With OSS Programs
- Starting an OSS Program From the Guardian Environment
- C Compiler Considerations for OSS Programs
- Porting a Guardian Program to the OSS Environment
- How Arguments Are Passed to the C or C++ Program
- Differences in the Two Run-Time Environments
- Which Run-Time Routines Are Available
- Use of Common Run-Time Environment (CRE) Functions
- Replacing Guardian Procedure Calls With Equivalent OSS Functions
- Which IPC Mechanisms Can Be Used
- Interactions Between Guardian and OSS Functions
- 9 Porting From Specific UNIX Systems
- 10 Native Migration Overview
- 11 Porting or Migrating Sockets Applications
- 12 Porting Threaded Applications
- A Equivalent OSS and UNIX Commands for Guardian Users
- B Equivalent Guardian Commands for OSS and UNIX Users
- C Equivalent Inspect Debugging Commands for dbx Commands
- D Equivalent Native Inspect Debugging Commands for dbx Commands
- E Standard POSIX Threads Functions: Differences Between the Previous and Current Standards
- Glossary
- Index
Porting or Migrating Sockets Applications
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11-9
Interoperability of OSS and Guardian Sockets in an
OSS Application
gethostbyaddr()
Gets the name of the host with the specified
Internet address
gethostbyname()
Gets the Internet address of the specified host
gethostid()
Gets the ID of the local host
gethostname()
Gets the name of the local host
getipnodebyaddr()
Gets a network host entry by address (protocol-
independent)
getipnodebyname()
Gets host information based on IP node name
(protocol-independent)
getnameinfo()
Converts a protocol-independent host address to
a host name and gives the service name
getnetbyaddr()
Gets the name of the network with the specified
network address
getnetbyname()
Gets the Internet address of the network with the
specified network name
getprotobyname()
Gets the protocol number of the specified
protocol name
getprotobynumber()
Gets the protocol name of the specified protocol
number
getservbyname()
Gets the service port number for the specified
port name
getservbyport()
Gets the service name of the specified port
number
host_file_gethostbyaddr()
Gets the name of the host with the specified
Internet address
host_file_gethostbyname()
Gets the Internet address of the specified host
if_freenameindex()
Frees dynamic memory allocated by the
if_nameindex function
if_indextoname()
Maps an interface index to its corresponding
name
if_nameindex()
Gets all interface names and indexes
if_nametoindex()
Maps an interface name to its corresponding
index
inet_addr()
Converts an Internet address from dotted-decimal
format to binary format
inet_lnaof()
Breaks apart an Internet address and returns the
local or host number portion
Table 11-3. Additional Internet Domain Support Functions (page 2 of 3)
Function Description