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From: cs@Eng.Sun.COM (Carl Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Mountd loops in case of multiple mount requests.
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Date: 30 May 90 21:35:45 GMT
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In article <2285@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>, liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William
Roberts) writes:
...
> Does anyone know why the standard libraries make stream
> connections to the portmapper?

	Most of the library functions (pmap_set, pmap_unset, pmap_getport,
pmap_rmtcall, and clnt_broadcast) use UDP.  Only pmap_getmaps uses TCP,
and that's because the size of the reply to a PMAPPROC_DUMP request might
well exceed the implementation's limit on the size of a datagram.

			Carl