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TALKD(8)               DragonFly System Manager's Manual              TALKD(8)

NAME

talkd -- remote user communication server

SYNOPSIS

talkd

DESCRIPTION

Talkd is the server that notifies a user that someone else wants to ini- tiate a conversation. It acts as a repository of invitations, responding to requests by clients wishing to rendezvous to hold a conversation. In normal operation, a client, the caller, initiates a rendezvous by sending a CTL_MSG to the server of type LOOK_UP (see <protocols/talkd.h>). This causes the server to search its invitation tables to check if an invita- tion currently exists for the caller (to speak to the callee specified in the message). If the lookup fails, the caller then sends an ANNOUNCE message causing the server to broadcast an announcement on the callee's login ports requesting contact. When the callee responds, the local server uses the recorded invitation to respond with the appropriate rendezvous address and the caller and callee client programs establish a stream connection through which the conversation takes place.

SEE ALSO

talk(1), write(1)

HISTORY

The talkd command appeared in 4.3BSD. DragonFly 3.5 December 11, 1993 DragonFly 3.5

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