[Info-vax] Stupid question of the day, re: OpenVMS process names

[Tim Lovern]

Ok, I cannot have two processes with the same process name, but I can set my process name to be the same as that of a different user.

I get that process names are not guaranteed to be unique. So what is actually happening behind the curtain?
is the process name hashed with the UIC internally, and this is what prevents me from having two identically named processes but allows me to have the same name as somebody else's process?

Or is it some other mechanism that I probably understood at one time but have long since managed to forget?
(finite number of brain cells, infinite volumes of adult beverages, you do the math... :-) )