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This section addresses areas of occasional interest to programmers using the lower level interfaces of the RPC package. The topics discussed are:
| Topic | RPC capability | 
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| Server processing | If calling svc_run is not feasible, a server can call the dispatcher directly | 
| Broadcast RPC | Details of the broadcast mechanism are described | 
| Batching | Efficiency is gained if a series of calls can be batched | 
| Authentication | Two methods in common use are described | 
| Port monitors | Details are provided for interfacing with the inetd and listen port monitors | 
| Threads | How to write RPC programs with multiple threads of execution |