xfn(3N) manual page
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xfn - overview of the XFN interface
The primary service
provided by a federated naming system is to map a composite name to a
reference. A composite name is composed of name components from one or more
naming systems. A reference consists of one or more communication end points.
An additional service provided by a federated naming system is to provide
access to attributes associated with named objects. This extension is to
satisfy most applications’ additional naming service needs without cluttering
the basic naming service model. XFN is a programming interface for a federated
naming service.
To use the XFN interface, include the xfn/xfn.h header file
and link the application with -lxfn.
The xfn/xfn.h header file contains
the interface declarations for:
- the XFN base context interface,
- the XFN
base attribute interface,
- status object and status codes used by operations
in these two interfaces,
- abstract data types passed as parameters to and
returned as values from operations in these two interfaces, and
- the interface
for the XFN standard syntax model for parsing compound names.
/usr/include/xfn/xfn.h
FN_ctx_t(3N)
, FN_status_t(3N)
, xfn_attributes(3N)
, xfn_composite_names(3N)
,
xfn_compound_names(3N)
, xfn_status_codes(3N)
, fns(5)
, fns_policies(5)
The
implementation of XFN in this Solaris release is based on the X/Open preliminary
specification. It is likely that there will be minor changes to these interfaces
to reflect changes in the final version of this specification. The next
minor release of Solaris will offer binary compatibility for applications
developed using the current interfaces. As the interfaces evolve toward
standardization, it is possible that future releases of Solaris will require
minor source code changes to applications that have been developed against
the preliminary specification.
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