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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2002-12-19 09:40:28 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2002-12-19 09:40:28 +0000
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mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.".
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/rpc/rpc_clnt_calls.3 b/lib/libc/rpc/rpc_clnt_calls.3
index 08435b8..0626d90 100644
--- a/lib/libc/rpc/rpc_clnt_calls.3
+++ b/lib/libc/rpc/rpc_clnt_calls.3
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ The remaining routines deal with error handling in the case of errors.
.Pp
Some of the routines take a
.Vt CLIENT
-handle as one of the parameters.
+handle as one of the arguments.
A
.Vt CLIENT
handle can be created by an RPC creation routine such as
@@ -107,16 +107,19 @@ client creation routine such as
.Fn clnt_create
(see
.Xr rpc_clnt_create 3 ) .
-The parameter
+The
.Fa inproc
-is the XDR function used to encode the procedure's parameters, and
+argument
+is the XDR function used to encode the procedure's arguments, and
.Fa outproc
is the XDR function used to decode the procedure's results;
.Fa in
is the address of the procedure's argument(s), and
.Fa out
is the address of where to place the result(s).
+The
.Fa tout
+argument
is the time allowed for results to be returned, which is overridden by
a time-out set explicitly through
.Fn clnt_control ,
@@ -128,8 +131,9 @@ otherwise an appropriate status is returned.
.It Fn clnt_freeres
A function macro that frees any data allocated by the
RPC/XDR system when it decoded the results of an RPC call.
-The parameter
+The
.Fa out
+argument
is the address of the results, and
.Fa outproc
is the XDR routine describing the results.
@@ -257,7 +261,9 @@ except that the initial timeout,
and the maximum timeout,
.Fa waittime
are specified in milliseconds.
+The
.Fa inittime
+argument
is the initial time that
.Fn rpc_broadcast_exp
waits before resending the request.
@@ -272,16 +278,19 @@ and
.Fa procnum
on the machine,
.Fa host .
-The parameter
+The
.Fa inproc
-is used to encode the procedure's parameters, and
+argument
+is used to encode the procedure's arguments, and
.Fa outproc
is used to decode the procedure's results;
.Fa in
is the address of the procedure's argument(s), and
.Fa out
is the address of where to place the result(s).
+The
.Fa nettype
+argument
can be any of the values listed on
.Xr rpc 3 .
This routine returns
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