From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add rpcbind
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:07:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgzbq0wl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160901044254.GA19793@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Thu, 1 Sep 2016 06:42:54 +0200")
John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> 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 <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.
>
> 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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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
2016-09-01 4:42 ` John Darrington
2016-09-01 12:07 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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