From: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
To: Ludovic Court??s <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add rpcbind
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 22:38:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160831203759.GA8319@jocasta.intra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shtklm7z.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:25:36PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> 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.
> + (description
> + "The rpcbind utility is a server that converts RPC program numbers into
> +universal addresses.")
Maybe: ???The @command{rpcbind} utility is a directory server that convert
ONC??RPC program numbers to IP addresses.???
What is a "directory server" it doesn't serve up directories.
J'
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-31 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-28 21:25 [PATCH] gnu: Add rpcbind John Darrington
2016-08-31 19:35 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-31 20:17 ` John Darrington
2016-08-31 20:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-31 20:38 ` John Darrington [this message]
2016-09-01 4:42 ` John Darrington
2016-09-01 12:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
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