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SELECT

 

NAME

SELECT (RPC Select Micro-Protocol)

SPECIFICATION

S. O'Malley and L. Peterson. A Dynamic Network Architecture. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 10, 2 (May 1992), 110--143.

B. Welch. The Sprite remote procedure call. University of California at Berkeley, Tech Report UCB/CSD 86/302, June 1986.

SYNOPSIS

SELECT is a micro-protocol that performs the addressing function of Sprite RPC; i.e., it demultiplexes request messages to the appropriate procedure.

REALM

SELECT is in the RPC realm.

PARTICIPANTS

SELECT removes a pointer to a long (the remote procedure number) from the top of the stack of the first participant.

CONFIGURATION

SELECT expects one RPC realm protocol below it.

AUTHOR

Sean O'Malley



Larry Peterson
Mon Feb 5 16:32:40 MST 1996