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- From: janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen)
- Newsgroups: comp.client-server
- Subject: Re: Sun RPC time-out question
- Message-ID: <JANSSEN.92Dec31144058@holmes.parc.xerox.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 22:40:58 GMT
- References: <8411@charon.cwi.nl>
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- Organization: Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA
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- In-Reply-To: guido@cwi.nl's message of 19 Dec 92 11:29:21 GMT
-
- Hi, Guido. Happy New Year!
-
- Get a copy of the book "Power Programming with RPC", by John Bloomer,
- published by O'Reilly & Assoc. ISBN 0-937175-77-3. It's packed with
- information on Sun RPC -- best reference I've seen yet.
-
- Unfortunately, you'll find that what's called Sun TIRPC is really
- a family of RPC protocols that share a common XDR and packet layout.
- Questions such as the semantics of a call (idempotency, sequencing of
- requests), or practical matters such as timeouts with UDP are left up
- to the implementation, and thus are really part of the application,
- rather than part of the RPC protocol. Thus your questions need to be
- answered on an application-by-application basis.
-
- Bill
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