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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How to use Sun RPC for large slow procedure calls
Message-ID: <1999@prune.bbn.com>
Date: 10 Oct 89 20:03:12 GMT
References: <21090@adm.BRL.MIL>
Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation
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In <21090@adm.BRL.MIL> Kemp@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
>  I certainly wouldn't characterize
>callbacks as a "kludge", any more than device interrupts are a "kludge"
>to get around the problems of polled I/O.
If the RPC system decides to do time-outs, and you have to do something
to circumvent that, then yes, it is a gross hack.

Sun RPC should check to see if the (remote) CPU and the receiving process
have died before blindly resubmitting the request.

Anything else requires the application level to work-around the IPC level,
and that's just about the best definition of a kludge I've ever heard of.
	/r$
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