Identifying Remote Programs and Procedures

• Conceptually, each procedure on a computer is identified by pair :

(prog, proc)

• prog: 32-bit integer identifying remote program
• proc: integer identifying procedure

• Set of program numbers partitioned into 8 sets.

  0x00000000 - 0x1fffffff assigned by SUN
  
  0x20000000 - 0x3fffffff assigned by local system manager
  0x40000000 - 0x5fffffff temporary
  0x60000000 - 0xffffffff reserved

• Multiple remote program versions can be identified:

(prog, version, proc)

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