Guardian Application Conversion Guide

Creating and Managing a High-PIN Process

Converting TAL Applications

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Specifying a Process Name

Using PROCESS_CREATE_

Your existing program might call the CREATEPROCESSNAME or

CREATEREMOTENAME procedure to obtain a process name to use in the

NEWPROCESS[NOWAIT] procedure call:

CALL CREATEPROCESSNAME (process^name);

CALL NEWPROCESS (filenames,

priority,

memory^pages,

processor,

process^id,

error,

process^name);

Convert your program to generate a process name in one of the following ways:

Use the PROCESS_CREATE_ procedure to allow the system to generate a name.

You do not need to use a separate procedure to obtain the process name.

Supply the name yourself (or have the user supply the name).

Use the PROCESSNAME_CREATE_ procedure to supply a system-generated

name then pass the name to PROCESS_CREATE_.

A system-generated process name has the form $X

ddd

, $Y

ddd

, or $Z

aaa

, where

any numeric character and

is any alphanumeric character.