Re: Sun RPC time-out question

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From: Bill Janssen
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:40

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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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