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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/13/2020 9:55 AM, Tim Lovern wrote:
> 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... :-) )

Process names has to be unique within processes belonging
to users in same *group*.

Arne