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From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,alt.sys.sun
Subject: RPC query
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Date: 3 Jan 90 12:04:56 GMT
Reply-To: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
Organization: Team Limpid's Death Mollusc From Hell Tour - Europe 1992
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I'm not quite sure where to post this but here goes...

I want to implement a non-stateless server over an ethernet running tcp/ip.
I want to use RPC because it simplifies a lot of the setting up a lot of
procedures, especially with Sun's rpcgen and the XDR stuff.  Now as I
understand RPC,  the client makes a request and gets its results immediately.
I wish to make it more stateful ie. a client can receive messages that are
the result of another clients request.  Is this possible?  I would like to
avoid polling the server to see if any information is available.
(Is this the wrong way to go about it?)

Answers by E-mail please to the addresses below and I'll summarise.
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