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Transport Provider Interface (TPI), Version 2 Draft 2
Copyright © 1999 The Open Group

NAME

T_INFO_REQ - Get Transport Protocol Parameter Sizes

SYNOPSIS

This message consists of a M_PCPROTO message block formatted as follows:


struct T_info_req {
    t_scalar_t   PRIM_type;      /* Always T_INFO_REQ */
};


DESCRIPTION

This primitive requests the transport provider to return the sizes of all relevant protocol parameters, plus the current state of the provider.

PARAMETERS

PRIM_type

indicates the primitive type.

Note that the T_INFO_REQ and T_INFO_ACK primitives have no effect on the state of the transport provider and do not appear in the state tables.

RULES

This primitive requires the transport provider to generate one of the following acknowledgments on receipt of the primitive and that the transport user wait for the acknowledgment before issuing any other primitives:

Successful

Acknowledgment of the primitive via the
T_INFO_ACK.

Non-fatal errors

There are no errors associated with this primitive.

MODES

Both connection-mode and connectionless-mode.

ORIGINATOR

Transport user.

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