VMS Help RTL Routines, PPL$, PPL$FIND_OBJECT_ID  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    Given the name of a spin lock, semaphore, barrier, event, work
    queue, or shared memory zone, the Find Object Identification
    routine returns the identifier of the object associated with the
    name you specify.

    Format

      PPL$FIND_OBJECT_ID  object-id ,object-name

1 - Arguments

 object-id

    OpenVMS usage identifier
    type          longword (unsigned)
    access        modify
    mechanism     by reference
    Object identifier to be returned. The object-id argument is the
    address of an unsigned longword that receives the associated
    identifier.

 object-name

    OpenVMS usage char_string
    type          character string
    access        read only
    mechanism     by descriptor
    Name of the object for which to return the associated identifier.
    The object-name argument is the address of a descriptor pointing
    to a character string containing the (user-defined) name of the
    object.