From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: query about clnt_create
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:42:20 -0500
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To: mehta kiran <kiranmehta1981@yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 05:15 -0800, mehta kiran wrote:
> Hi Trond,
>   perhaps i was not clear.
>   I am talking about timeout for clnt_create
>   and not about clnt_call which already has
>   client handle in place. clnt_control will act on 
>   client handle and i am searching for something which
> 
>   will create client handle within specified timeout 
>   if possible.

AFAICS clnt_create() will only do RPC calls if you fail to specify the
port number to connect to, in which case it needs to call pmap_getport.

The portmapper timeout values appear to be hardcoded into the glibc rpc
code, but writing your own client for PMAP_GETPORT should be trivial.

Cheers
  Trond


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