freebsd-ports/devel/arpc/pkg-descr
Ed Schouten 3588b9e192 Add a package for ARPC.
ARPC is an RPC library similar to GRPC. Though a lot simpler than GRPC
featurewise, it has transparent support for file descriptor passing.
ARPC is used by some applications related to CloudABI, like Flower
(CloudABI's networking daemon).

Reviewed by:	riggs
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12103
2017-09-07 05:53:27 +00:00

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ARPC is a GRPC-like library that supports file descriptor passing.
ARPC ships with a script, aprotoc, that works similar to Protobuf/GRPC's
protoc. It generates message and service bindings, taking a .proto file
as an input. Where ARPC differs from GRPC is that messages may contain
file descriptors. These file descriptors are passed on to the remote
side transparently. This makes ARPC useful for implementing privilege
separation between processes.
WWW: https://github.com/NuxiNL/arpc