The svc_getreqset routine is for servers that implement custom asynchronous event processing or that do not use the svc_run routine. You can only use svc_fdset when the server does not use svc_run. You are unlikely to call this routine directly, because the svc_run routine calls it. However, there are times when you cannot call svc_run. For example, suppose a program services RPC requests and reads or writes to another socket at the same time. The program cannot call svc_run. It must call select and svc_getreqset. The server calls svc_getreqset when a call to the select system call determines that the server has received one or more RPC requests. The svc_getreqset routine reads in data for each server connection, then calls the server program to handle the data. The svc_getreqset routine does not return a value. It finishes executing after all sockets associated with the variable rdfds have been serviced. You can use the global variable svc_fdset with svc_getreqset. The svc_fdset variable is the RPC server's read file descriptor bit mask. To use svc_fdset: 1. Copy the global variable svc_fdset into a temporary variable. 2. Pass the temporary variable to the select routine. The select routine overwrites the variable and returns it. 3. Pass the temporary variable to the svc_getreqset routine.