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Subject: Yellow Pages Question
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Date: 24 Jul 89 20:53:40 GMT
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? From: rc@wyse.wyse.com

? I have an application which needs to know whether Yellow Pages is up
? and running. I have a program which makes a RPC call to determine if
? it can talk to the YPBIND on the server. The only snag though is that
? it takes about 15 seconds to time out before reporting that YP is
? not configured. Of course if YP is configured, the answer is reported
? immediately.

? Can someone please suggest an alternate solution ? The bottom line is that
? I don't want the user to wait that long to get an answer.

Time the RPC call with an alarm. If the RPC call is not interruptable,
you may have to fork a child process.

? Thanks in advance

? -rc
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