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From: hue@netcom.UUCP (Jonathan Hue)
Newsgroups: comp.os.mach
Subject: port death notifications and nmserver
Keywords: A real Mach question
Message-ID: <2178@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 23 Aug 89 03:58:42 GMT
Organization: NetCom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 997-9175 guest}
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Can anyone tell me the reason the net message server delays port death
notifications?  There is a delay between the time it receives a port
death notification locally, and the time it tells other net message
servers about it.  Why not just tell them immediately?


-Jonathan