VMS Help System Services, $FORCEX, Arguments *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX) |
pidadr OpenVMS usage:process_id type: longword (unsigned) access: modify mechanism: by reference Process identification (PID) of the process to be forced to exit. The pidadr argument is the address of a longword containing the PID. The pidadr argument can refer to a process running on the local node or a process running on another node in the OpenVMS Cluster system. The pidadr argument is optional but must be specified if the process that is to be forced to exit is not in the same UIC group as the calling process. prcnam OpenVMS usage:process_name type: character-coded text string access: read only mechanism: by descriptor-fixed-length string descriptor Process name of the process that is to be forced to exit. The prcnam argument is the address of a character string descriptor pointing to the process name string. A process running on the local node can be identified with a 1- to 15-character string. To identify a process on a particular node in a cluster, specify the full process name, which includes the node name as well as the process name. The full process name can contain up to 23 characters. The prcnam argument can be used only on behalf of processes in the same UIC group as the calling process. To force processes in other groups to exit, you must specify the pidadr argument. This restriction exists because the operating system interprets the UIC group number of the calling process as part of the specified process name; the names of processes are unique to UIC groups. code OpenVMS usage:cond_value type: longword (unsigned) access: read only mechanism: by value Completion code value to be used as the exit parameter. The code argument is a longword containing this value. If you do not specify the code argument, the value 0 is passed as the completion code.
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