Inside Macintosh: Networking With Open Transport / Part 2 - Open Transport Reference

Chapter 22 - Endpoints Reference

This chapter describes the constants, data types, and functions that you use with endpoints. You can also use general provider data types and functions with endpoints. General structures and functions are described in "Providers Reference".

Note

Some endpoint data types and functions correspond exactly to those in the X/Open Transport Interface (XTI), from which Open Transport derives its application programming interface. Appendix A lists these data types and functions. You can refer to these data types and functions by their Open Transport names or their corresponding XTI names. For example, you can refer to the Open Transport function OTBind by the XTI name t_bind. This chapter refers to endpoint data types and functions by their Open Transport names.

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Chapter Contents

Constants and Data Types

Error-Checking Constant

Endpoint Service Types

Open Transport Flags

Open Flags

Endpoint Flags

Endpoint States

Structure Types

The TEndpointInfo Structure

The TBind Structure

The TUnitData Structure

The TUDErr Structure

The TUnitRequest Structure

The TUnitReply Structure

The TCall Structure

The TRequest Structure

The TReply Structure

The TDiscon Structure

Functions

Creating Endpoints

Binding and Unbinding Endpoints

Obtaining Information About an Endpoint

Allocating Structures

Determining if Bytes Are Available

Functions for Connectionless Transactionless Endpoints

Functions for Connectionless Transaction-Based Endpoints

Establishing Connection

Functions for Connection-Oriented Transactionless Endpoints

Functions for Connection-Oriented Transaction-Based Endpoints

Tearing Down a Connection