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- This is a Python interface to Sun RPC, designed and implemented mostly
- by reading the Internet RFCs about the subject.
- *** NOTE: xdr.py has evolved into the standard module xdrlib.py ***
- There are two library modules, xdr.py and rpc.py, and several example
- clients: mountclient.py, nfsclient.py, and rnusersclient.py,
- implementing the NFS Mount protocol, (part of) the NFS protocol, and
- the "rnusers" protocol (used by rusers(1)), respectively. The latter
- demonstrates the use of broadcast via the Port mapper's CALLIT
- procedure.
- There is also a way to create servers in Python.
- To test the nfs client, run it from the shell with something like this:
- python -c 'import nfsclient; nfsclient.test()' [hostname [filesystemname]]
- When called without a filesystemname, it lists the filesystems at the
- host; default host is the local machine.
- Other clients are tested similarly.
- For hostname, use e.g. wuarchive.wustl.edu or gatekeeper.dec.com (two
- hosts that are known to export NFS filesystems with little restrictions).
- There are now two different RPC compilers:
- 1) Wim Lewis rpcgen.py found on http://www.omnigroup.com/~wiml/soft/stale-index.html#python.
- 2) Peter Ĺstrands rpcgen.py, which is part of "pynfs" (http://www.cendio.se/~peter/pynfs/).