DPNS_STARTSESS
Section: DPNS Library Functions (3)
Updated: $Date: 2010-04-05 09:51:26 +0200 (Mon, 05 Apr 2010) $
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NAME
dpns_startsess - start session
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include "dpns_api.h"
int dpns_startsess (char *server,
char *comment);
DESCRIPTION
dpns_startsess
starts session.
The connection to the Name Server is kept open until
dpns_endsess
is explicitly called.
Requests issued between
dpns_startsess
and
dpns_endsess
are independent from each other and are individually committed or rolled back.
The
comment
is logged in the server log.
RETURN VALUE
This routine returns 0 if the operation was successful or -1 if the operation
failed. In the latter case,
serrno
is set appropriately.
ERRORS
- EINVAL
-
The length of
comment
exceeds
CA_MAXCOMMENTLEN.
- SENOSHOST
-
Host unknown.
- SENOSSERV
-
Service unknown.
- SECOMERR
-
Communication error.
- ENSNACT
-
Name server is not running or is being shutdown.
SEE ALSO
dpns_endsess(3)