OSF DCE Application Development Guide--Core Components

Basic RPC Routine Usage
Also, if binding information changes, the users are responsible for updating any string
bindings used by their clients. Reducing manual intervention in the use of string
bindings requires that an application provide its own mechanisms for storing,
maintaining, and accessing binding information. In contrast, a directory service such as
CDS provides these mechanisms automatically to applications that store binding
information in a namespace.
Regardless of how a client obtains a string binding, before establishing a binding, the
client must ask the RPC runtime for a binding handle that refers to the server binding
information depicted in the string binding. The client converts the string binding into a
server binding handle by calling the rpc_binding_from_string_binding( ) routine.
The following pseudocode lists the calls for composing a string binding and for using it
to obtain a server binding handle:
rpc_string_binding_compose(...);
rpc_binding_from_string_binding(...);
.
.
.
rpc_string_free(...);
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