Native Inspect Manual (H06.04+)

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Glossary-1
Glossary
address space. The memory locations to which a process has access.
break condition. An event indicator or sequence of data from a terminal or terminal
emulator that requests interruption of an application program.
breakpoint. A location that you specify in a program at which execution stops and the
debugger allows you to examine the state of the program and its variables.
command. A demand for action by or information from a subsystem or the operation
demanded by an operator or application. A command is typically conveyed as an
interprocess message from an application to a subsystem.
command file. An EDIT file that contains a series of commands and serves as a source of
command input.
cpu, pin. In the Guardian environment, a number pair that uniquely identifies a process
during the lifetime of the process, consisting of the processor (CPU) number and the
process identification number (PIN). See also process ID.
current process. The process currently being debugged by Native Inspect; sometimes
known as the debuggee. If several processes are under the control of one instance of
Native Inspect, the current process is the process for which the most recent debugging
event has been reported. All Native Inspect commands apply only to the current
process.
dynamic-link library (DLL). A collection of procedures whose code and data can be loaded
and executed at any virtual memory address, with run-time resolution of links to and
from the main program and other independent libraries. The same DLL can be used by
more than one process. Each process gets its own copy of DLL static data. Contrast
with signal.
ELF. See extended link format (ELF).
error number. For the Subsystem Programmatic Interface (SPI), a value that can be
assigned to a return token or to the last field of an error token to identify an error that
occurred. SPI defines a small set of error numbers, but most error numbers are defined
by subsystems.
event message. Text intended for a system operator that describes a change in some
condition in the system or network, whether minor or serious. The change of condition
is called an event. Events can be operational errors, notifications of limits exceeded,
requests for actions needed, and so on.
explicit dynamic-link library (explicit DLL). A dynamic-link library (DLL) that is named in
the libList of a client or is a native-compiled loadfile associated with a client.