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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add rpcbind


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add rpcbind
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:07:06 +0200
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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’.



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