INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC STANDARD 13719-4 First edition 1998-10-01 Information technology Portable Common Tool Environment (PCTE) - Part 4: IDL binding (Interface Definition Language) Technologies de Iinformation Environnement d'outil courant portable (PCTE) Partie 4: Liaison IDL (langage de définition d'interface) IEC Reference number ISO/IEC 13719-4:1998(E) I without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO/IEC 13719-4:1998 (E) Contents 1 Scope 1 2 Conformance 1 3 Normative references 1 4 Definitions 2 5 Formal notations 2 6 Outline of the Standard 2 7 Binding strategy 2 7.1 IDL standard 2 7.2 General principles 2 7.3 Sets and sequences 3 7.4 References and names 3 7.5 Implementation aspects 4 7.5.1 Source files 4 7.5.2 Naming changes in the IDL 4 7.5.3 Difference in generated C code 4 8 Datatype mapping 4 8.1 Basic datatypes 4 8.2 Sequences 5 8.3 The global pcte source file 8 8.4 The PCTE basic type source file 9 9 Object management 9 9.1 Object management datatypes 9 9.2 Link operators 12 9.3 Object operations 16 9.4 Version operations 20 9.5 Object and version operations - reference interfaces 21 10 Schema management 25 10.1 Schema management datatypes 25 10.2 Update operations 26 ?ISO/IEC1998 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced microfilm, without permission in writing from the publisher. ISO/IEC Copyright Ofice · Case postale 56 · CH-1211 Geneve 20 · Switzerland Printed in Switzerland ed without license from IHS Not or Resale CISO/IEC ISO/IEC 13719-4:1998 (E) 10.3 Usage operations 32 10.4 Working schema operations 35 11 Volumes, devices, archives, and clusters 39 11.1 Volume, device, archive, and cluster datatypes 39 11.2 Volume, device, and archive operations 40 11.3 Cluster operations 43 12 Files, pipes, and devices 44 12.1 File, pipe, and device datatypes 44 12.2 File, pipe, and device operations 44 13 Process execution 47 13.1 Process execution datatypes 47 13.2 Process execution operations 48 13.3 Security operations 51 13.4 Profiling operations 52 13.5 Monitoring operations 53 13.6 Mandatory security operations 54 13.7 Consumer identity operations 54 13.8 Contents handle operation 54 14 Message queues 55 14.1 Message queue datatypes 55 14.2 Message queue operations 56 15 Notification 58 15.1 Notification datatypes 58 15.2 Notification operations 58 16 Concurrency and integrity control 59 16.1 Concurrency and integrity control datatypes 59 16.2 Concurrency and integrity control operations 60 17 Replication 61 17.1 Replication datatypes 61 17.2 Replication operations 61 18 Network connection 63 18.1 Network connection datatypes 63 18.2 Network connection operations 64 18.3 Foreign system operations 65 18.4 Time operations 65 18.5 Other workstation operations 66 19 Discretionary security 66 19.1 Discretionary security datatypes 67 19.2 Discretionary access control operations 67 19.3 Discretionary security administration operations 68 ili CopyrightInternationalOrganizationforStandardization it license from IHS Not for Resale ISO/IEC 13719-4:1998 (E) @ISO/IEC 20 Mandatory security 70 20.1 Mandatory_security datatypes 70 20.2 Operations for mandatory security operation 71 20.3 Mandatory security administration operations 71 21 Auditing 73 21.1 Auditing datatypes 73 21.2 Auditing operations 77 22 Accounting 78 22.1 Accounting datatypes 78 22.2 Accounting administration operations 80 23 References 82 23.1 Reference datatypes 82 23.2 Reference creation and discarding 83 23.3 Object reference operations 84 23.4 Link reference operations 85 23.5 Type reference operations 86 24 Implementation limits 87 24.1 Implementation limit datatypes 87 24.2 Implementation limit operations 89 25 Error conditions 89 25.1 Error condition datatypes 89 Annex A - Comparison with ISO/IEC 13719-2 97 Annex B - IDL file structure 100 Annex C - The object-oriented module 103 Index of abstract operations 108 Index of IDL subprograms 109 Index of IDL datatypes 125 cense from IHS Not for Resale