TALKD(8) BSD System Manager's Manual TALKD(8)NAMEtalkd — remote user communication server
SYNOPSIStalkdDESCRIPTION
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 ALSOtalk(1), write(1)HISTORY
The talkd command appeared in 4.3BSD.
BSD December 11, 1993 BSD