OSF DCE Application Development Guide--Core Components

OSF DCE Application Development Guide—Core Components
2.4.4 Managing Individual dced Entries
Figure 2-3 shows examples of individual dced entries and the locations of associated
data. The data item name or its UUID is used to find an entry, and then the storage tag is
used to find the data.
Figure 2-3. Accessing Hostdata
UUID . . . file location
data
data
data
data
dced
Local Host’s Disk
DCE Host
hostdata entry
srvrexec entry
srvrconf entry
keytab entry
UUID . . . file location
UUID . . . object location
UUID . . . object location
The data for each hostdata item is stored in a file on disk. The dced program uses the
UUID to find the entry in the hostdata entry list. The entry’s storage tag is then used to
find the data. For hostdata, the tag contains a filename in OSF’s reference
implementation. The data returned for one entry is an array of strings in a sec_attr_t
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