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Packet Buffers 

Packet descriptors (struct pkt) track message fragments through the pvmd. Fields pk_buf, pk_max, pk_dat and pk_len are used in the same ways as similarly named fields of a frag, described in Section gif. Besides data, pkts contain state to operate the pvmd-pvmd protocol.