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On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 22:30:47 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>>On 24 Oct 2024 17:02:02 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>>
>>> RS6000 is big endian and the ONC-RPC XDR encoding is big endian across
>>> the network. The Linux boxes would swap the order when decoding the
>>> XDR.
>>
>>Linux runs on hardware of both kinds of endianness. This is why you have
>>functions like htons/htonl etc
> 
> Those functions predate linux.

Yes, and they wouldn't be too helpful when dealing with XDR. That comes 
with its own set of data types and functions.

https://fiona.dmcs.pl/rso/du/onc-rpc5.html

It's old and clunky but having worked with both I don't know if it's any 
worse than Google's protobuf invention,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Buffers