In a distributed environment, the requirements of error handling impose a number of additional requirements that help make design decisions, potentially easing disagreements.
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In LOCUS, the initial ipc effort was further simplified by the desire to provide a network-wide ipc facility which is fully compatible with the single machine functions that were already present in Unix.
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