Guardian Programming Reference Summary for pTAL and TAL

Procedure Calls Summary (O-Q)
Guardian Programming Reference Summary for pTAL and TAL—522631-001
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PROCESS_SETSTRINGINFO_
Alters a single string-form attribute of a specified process, and optionally returns the
prior value of the attribute.
PROCESS_SPAWN_
Creates a new Open System Services (OSS) process and, optionally, assigns a number of
process attributes.
error := PROCESS_SETSTRINGINFO_ ( [ processhandle ]
,[ specifier ]
,set-attr-code
,[ set-value:length ]
,[ old-value:maxlen ]
,[ old-value-len ] );
error, INT returned value
processhandle, INT .EXT:ref:10 input
specifier, INT:value input
0 Act upon the specified process only.
1 Act upon both members if processhandle specifies a member of a named process
pair.
set-attr-code, INT:value input
set-value:length, STRING .EXT:ref:*,INT:value input:input
old-value:maxlen, STRING .EXT:ref:*,INT:value output:input
old-value-len, INT .EXT:ref:1 output
oss-pid:= PROCESS_SPAWN_ ( oss-program-file
,[ fdinfo ]
,[ argv ]
,[ envp ]
,[ inheritance ]
,[ inheritance-length ]
,[ process-extension ]
,[ process-results ]
,[ nowait-tag ]
,[ path ] );