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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add rpcbind
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add rpcbind |
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Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:07:06 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:38:00PM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:25:36PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
> John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > + (synopsis "A server to convert RPC program numbers into
> universal addresses")
> ^
> What about: ???Convert ONC??RPC program numbers to addresses????
>
> I have no idea what ONC is.
>
> Oh according to Wikipedia "Open Network Computing". Maybe then I will move
> this code
> out of linux.scm and into onc-rpc.scm
Probably (“ONC RPC” used to be known as “Sun RPC”.)
By “directory server”, I probably meant “directory service”: you lookup
a name (program number), and it gives you a number (IPC address).
Ludo’.