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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2020-03-13 13:55:51 +0000, Tim Lovern said:

> ...So what is actually happening behind the curtain?

Others have answered the immediate question.

Pragmatically, process names are best considered nice labels for the 
SHOW SYSTEM display.

Process names are something I'd avoid for most other uses.

They're a less-than-entirely-robust means of target identification, 
when used for process management.

I'd avoid them when working within an application.

Use another means of identifying the target, such as a lock.

I've seen cases of duplicate process names in the same group.

Whether that was a race condition, or otherwise?

They're best considered semi-useful display artifacts.



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