Client pseudo-code

This client sends data to and receives data from the selected server.

#include <xti.h>
#include other needed header files

extern int t_errno;

main (int argc, char *argv[])
{

  /* Declare data structures needed for operations on the
     transport provider endpoint. */

  /* Declare the data structure that contains the well-known
     address of the server.  Both the type and the value of
     "server_address" must be transport-specific.  This example
     assumes that they have already been defined appropriately
     (using "typedef" and "#define", for example).
  TRANSPORT_ADDRESS server_address = WELL_KNOWN_SERVER_ADDRESS;

  /* Declare other data structures. */

  /* Open the transport provider, using the appropriate device
     name, and receive a file descriptor in return that denotes
     that endpoint.  */
  fd = t_open(device_name, ... )

  /* Have the transport provider bind an arbitrary transport address
  (which is transport-specific) to the endpoint. */
  t_bind(fd, NULL, NULL);

  /* Allocate the data structure needed in the call to connect to
     the server. */
  connection_info = t_alloc(fd, T_CALL, T_ADDR);

  /* Fill in the data structure with the well-known address
     of the server. */
  connection_info->addr.len = sizeof(server_address);
  connection_info->addr.buf = &server_address;

  /* Connect to the server, passing in its well-known address. */
  t_connect(fd, connection_info, NULL);

  while (true) {

   /* Send data to the server. */
   t_snd(fd, &data_to_send, sizeof(data_to_send), &flags);

   /* Receive data from the server. */
   t_rcv(fd, &data_to_send, sizeof(data_to_send), &flags);

   /* Time to exit? */
   if (time_to_exit == /* some suitable expression that returns
       zero if it's not time to disconnect and non-zero otherwise */)
      break;
  }

  /* Disconnect */
  t_snddis(fd, NULL);

  /* Close the transport endpoint. */
  t_close(fd);
}