OSF DCE Application Development Guide--Core Components

DCE Host Services
Figure 2-1. The dced Entry Lists
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Server Management Entry Lists
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srvrexec entry listsrvrconf entry list
Server Configuration Entry Server Execution Entry
keytab entry list
Key Table Entry
hostdata entry list
Host Data Entry
dced
Although an entry can be associated with many different kinds of data items, all entries
have the same structure, shown in Figure 2-2.
Figure 2-2. Structure of an Entry
Entry UUID, Name, Description, Storage Tag
Each entry is a dced_entry_t data structure. Each member of this data structure is
described as follows:
id An entry UUID is necessary to uniquely identify the data item.
Some data items have well-known UUIDs (the same UUID for the
particular item on all hosts). The data type is uuid_t.
name Each data item is identified with a name, to which applications refer.
The name need only be unique within an entry list because the entry
UUID guarantees the entry’s uniqueness. Some item names are
well-known and defined in header files. The data type is
dced_string_t.
description This is a human-readable description of the data item. Its data type
is dced_string_t.
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