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Cell Directory Service (CDS)

The name-service provider for the Open Software Foundation's Distributed Computing Environment.

client stub

MIDL-generated C-language source code that contains all the functions necessary for the client application to make remote procedure calls using the model of a traditional function call in a standalone application. The client stub is responsible for marshaling the input parameters and unmarshaling the output parameters. See also server stub, proxy stub.

conformant array

In RPC, an array whose size is determined at run time by another parameter, structure field, or expression.

connection-oriented

Describes a communications protocol or transport that provides a virtual circuit through which data packets are received in the same order as they were transmitted. If the connection between machines fails, the application is notified. TCP and SPX are examples of connection-oriented protocols. See also datagram.

connectionless

See datagram.

context rundown

A server notification that results from an unexpected termination of the binding between client and server applications.