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

[Tim Lovern]

On Friday, March 13, 2020 at 7:07:26 AM UTC-7, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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

So it is the UIC (group) driving it. I thought so, but couldn't remember.

thanks!