Open System Services NFS SCF Reference Manual

Glossary
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OSS
OSS. See Open System Services (OSS)
Parallel Library TCP/IP. A Compaq networking product that provides increased
performance, scalability, and fault-tolerance by creating parallel TCP/IP protocol stacks
implemented as an Shared Runtime Library (SRL) on the NonStop Kernel operating
system.
pathname. A name that identifies a file by specifying which directories must be searched in
order to find the link to the file. A pathname consists of zero or more directory names,
separated by slash (/) characters, and followed by a filename. Multiple consecutive
slashes in a pathname are treated as a single slash. If the pathname begins with a slash,
the search begins with the root directory; otherwise, the search begins with the current
directory. There is no concept of current directory with NFS Subsystem Programmatic
Interface, or SPI, commands, so all pathnames passed as SPI tokens must begin with a
slash. The maximum pathname length is 1024 characters.
PCNFSD. See (PC)NFS Daemon (PCNFSD)
.
(PC)NFS Daemon (PCNFSD). The name of a program that provides user authentication and
NFS printing services to PCs and other workstations unable to provide UNIX
authentication information.
PING. Packet InterNet Groper. See ECHO
.
remote mount. A mount used by an NFS client to attach part of the local NFS file hierarchy
to a point within the client’s remote file hierarchy. The remote mount is visible only to
the NFS client performing the mount. In effect, the local hierarchy from the mount point
down is exported to the client performing the remote mount.
remote procedure. A procedure or function packaged to be called within a server process
indirectly by a client process.
Remote Procedure Call (RPC). The action of calling a remote procedure. RPC provides a
standard way to invoke services operated on other servers that are linked by a network
(remote). The Remote Procedure Call (RPC) specification is defined by RFC (Request
for Comment) 1057.
Request for Comments (RFC). The name of a series of notes that contain surveys,
measurements, ideas, techniques, and observations, as well as proposed and accepted
Internet protocol standards. RFCs are edited but not referenced. They are available
across the Internet.
RFC. See Request for Comments (RFC)
.
RPC. See Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
.
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). The Internet standard protocol for transferring
electronic mail messages from one machine to another. SMTP specifies how two mail
systems interact and specifies the format of control messages that they exchange to
transfer mail.