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

[Bob Gezelter]

On Friday, March 13, 2020 at 10:10:04 AM UTC-4, Tim Lovern wrote:
> 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!

Tim,

Reference IDSM.

Not hashed, effectively prefixed.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com