Functions in this library provide routines that provide a transport-level interface to networking services for applications, facilities for machine-independent data representation, a remote procedure call mechanism, and other networking services useful for application programs.

Many features in this library are implemented upon dynamic linking and will not function correctly if the library is statically linked. Additionally, an application that statically links this library will not be compliant with the System V Application Binary Interface.

Some symbols are not intended to be referenced directly. Rather, they are exposed because they are used elsewhere through a private interface. One such example is the set of symbols beginning with the _xti prefix. Those symbols are used in implementing the X/Open Transport Interface (XTI) interfaces documented in libxnet. See libxnet(3LIB).

The shared object libnsl.so.1 provides the public interfaces defined below. See intro(3) for additional information on shared object interfaces.

The following interface is unique to the 32-bit version of this library:

/usr/lib/libnsl.a

archive library

/usr/lib/libnsl.so.1

shared object

/usr/lib/64/libnsl.so.1

64-bit shared object

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

pvs(1), intro(2), intro(3), libxnet(3LIB), attributes(5)