From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andreww591@gmail.com (Andrew Warkentin) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 21:17:50 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] Were all of you.. Hippies? In-Reply-To: <20170326031122.E18D418C097@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20170326031122.E18D418C097@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: On 3/25/17, Noel Chiappa wrote: > I can't wait to see how you all fit remote procedure calls into a file > paradigm. > > Noel > There are lots of RPC protocols that run over TCP which is for the most part an unstructured byte stream, so there's no reason why RPC couldn't be run over a local file transport in a similar way (especially with one that preserves message boundaries, unlike TCP, which requires application-layer protocols to implement their own framing).