complete all ANSI prototypes, esp for farm writeup the get_machiens utility right now, createReply hangs until create is completed ... ?? this should be fixed ... convert host list in get_may_hosts into a hash table. provide utility for terminating only one child. some of the warning messages printed by the routines would be better as indicated in some other way (eg as errnos ???) a method needed to stop proc farm current recv design is such that if unwanted messages keep coming in, timeout may last much, much longer than it was requested (since each new but unwanted message resests the timout counter.) This could be fixed by getting elapsed time .... Discuss alternate proc farm methods: --- attempt to hold rate of message arrival constant