Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:29:59 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] [RFC] AF_RXRPC socket family implementation [try #2] |
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> > Other RPC types use normal socket types. > > They do? Examples please. I didn't think Linux, at least, has any other RPC > socket families, though I could be wrong as I haven't made a thorough study of > them.
SunRPC is implemented in user space and uses the existing TCP/IP layer and socket types, even though it is using them in an RPC manner and viewed at the RPC layer they are RPCs
> I have made my client sockets use connect(), but that's just a convenience > and I need to make it possible to avoid doing that to make it useful to > the kernel. It's similar to SOCK_DGRAM sockets in this respect.
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