Guardian Procedure Calls Reference Manual

permanent, 228, 385, 392
physical record length, 314, 316, 408
positioning a disk file to a saved position, 1246
random processing and WRITEUPDATE, 540, 1513
random read processing, 1213
reading a record after calling:KEYPOSITION, 1221
reading a record after calling:POSITION, 1221
record length, 230, 387–388
refreshing, 390
repositioning disk heads, 753
returning the primary extent size, 416, 552
returning the RBA location, 552
saving a disk file's current file position, 1257
security check, 464, 903
selecting serial or parallel writes, 556
sequential locking and reading of records, 1208
sequential reading, 1192
size of secondary-extent, 416, 553
temporary, 228, 385, 392
unlocking, 1433
unlocking records of, 1436
unstructured buffer size, 556
using pseudo-temporary names, 240
verify writes on or off, 556
when reading and record does not exist, 490, 1218
writing EOF to an unstructured file, 210, 380
writing out EOF, free-list pointers, audit buffer, cache
data buffer, 318, 1234
Disk process see DP2
DISK_REFRESH_ procedure, 318
DISKINFO procedure, 320
Distributed Name Service
file name conversion, 621, 623, 627
file name expansion, 625
DIVER program, 1576
DNUMIN procedure, 322
DNUMIN64_ procedure, 322
DNUMOUT procedure, 325
Documented system procedures, list, 1575
Downshifting alphabetic characters, 1359
DST see Daylight saving time
DST_GETINFO_ procedure, 327
DST_TRANSITION_ADD_ procedure, 329
DST_TRANSITION_DELETE_ procedure, 332
DST_TRANSITION_MODIFY_ procedure, 334
DTE address buffer, 1350
Duplicate requests, from requester processes, 446, 1229
E
E edit descriptor, 1557
EDIT control block, 336
Edit descriptors
/, 1554
<, 1554
A, 1555
B, 1557
binary, 1557
blank interpretation, 1550, 1554
BN, 1554
buffer control, 1550, 1554
BZ, 1554
D, 1557
description of, 1550
E, 1557
exponential, 1557
F, 1559
fixed-format, 1559
floating-point, 1557
G, 1559
general, 1559
H, 1553
hexadecimal, 1565
I, 1560
integer, 1560
L, 1562
literal, 1550, 1553
logical, 1562
M, 1562
mask, 1562
nonrepeatable, 1550, 1552
O, 1564
octal, 1564
P, 1553
plus control, 1550, 1554
repeatable, 1550–1551, 1555
S, 1554
scale factor, 1550, 1553
SP, 1554
SS, 1554
T, 1552
tabulation, 1550, 1552
TL, 1552
TR, 1552
X, 1552
Z, 1565
Edit files, nowait access, 724
Editing file names, 569
EDITREAD control block, 338
EDITREAD procedure, 336
EDITREADINIT procedure
description of, 338
use with EDITREAD procedure, 338
Elapsed time and a timeout message, 1380, 1390, 1393
End-of-file pointer
and segment deallocation, 253, 1278, 1281
item code, 419
paramter, 552
Entry point names, associated with a procedure label,
1413–1414
ENV register bits for space ID, 247
EOF see End-of-file pointer
ERRNO_GET_ procedure, 340
Error handling and retries within SIO procedures, 865
Error numbers, file system, 1244
Errors
in NEWPROCESS[NOWAIT] procedure, 850–851
retrying file I/O operations, 548
Even unstructured files, 236, 389, 401
1592 Index