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Linux® Socket Programming
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Linux® Socket Programming

by Sean Walton
January 2001
Intermediate to advanced
552 pages
11h 33m
English
Sams
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Chapter 15. Network Encapsulation with Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs)

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Looking from a developer-user perspective, knowing all the eccentricities of network programming may be more laborious than you want. Sometimes, you or your peers (the developer-users) simply want to focus on the development of the programs at hand and leave the network details to established libraries or tools. Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) fit that bill perfectly.

RPCs handle all the connection and data translation for your developer-users. From the perspective ...

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