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On 25 Apr 2005, Peter da Silva wrote:
>> Anyhow, what I was thinking of when I said RPC was "any tool that
>> automatically generates local stub code for message passing."
>
> Hmmm, I'd lump that in with any other stub generator.
>
> So if the underlying message mechanism is queued then the call returns
> immediately, and you need to make another call later to get the reply?
Usually. I think one of the systems we dealt with at a former workplace
required you to select on their socket, and then call their code which
would call back to your registered handler or something.
Daniel
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