Asynchronous, Bi-Directional ONC-RPC: status + input requested

[David Merrill]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 03:51:33PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi.  Happy New Year.

Happy New Year!

Tell me why asynchronous calls are needed? Indeed, tell me why
callbacks are needed at all. What's so wrong with the client blocking
on a server call? If the call takes long enough for the user to notice
the blocking, it is a bug. K.I.S.S.

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