> > 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. So use SOCK_DGRAM, its clearly near enough. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html