talkd(1M)talkd(1M)NAMEtalkd - remote user communication server
SYNOPSISDESCRIPTION
is the server that notifies a user that someone wants to initiate a
conversation. It acts as a repository of invitations, responding to
requests by clients wishing to initiate a conversation.
To initiate a conversation, the client (the command) sends a message of
type LOOK_UP to the server (see This causes the server to search its
invitation table to check if an invitation currently exists for the
caller to talk to the callee specified in the message. If the lookup
fails, the caller then sends a message of type ANNOUNCE, which causes
the server to display an announcement on the callee's terminal request‐
ing 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.
To activate the talk service, the following entry must be added to the
file:
SEE ALSOtalk(1), write(1).
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