NonStop S-Series Hardware Installation and FastPath Guide (G06.25+)

Glossary
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mutex
mutex. See mutual exclusion (mutex).
mutual exclusion (mutex). An operating mode with interrupts disabled.
NAM. See Network Access Method (NAM).
named resource list (NRL). A table that contains one entry for each device and named
process in the system. A logical device number (ldev) is an NRL index.
national-standards-body conforming POSIX.1 application. An application that both:
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Uses only the facilities described in ISO/IEC IS 9945-1:1990 and approved
standards of a specific member of the ISO or IEC (the national standards body)
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Documents use of only those facilities and approved standards and documents all
options and dependencies on limits
native. An adjective that can modify object code, object file, process, procedure, and mode
of process execution. Native object files contain native object code, which directly uses
MIPS instructions and the corresponding conventions for register handling and
procedure calls. Native processes are those created by executing native object files.
Native procedures are units of native object code. Native mode execution is the state
of the process when it is executing native procedures.
native-compiled MIPS RISC instructions. See MIPS RISC instructions.
native-compiled RISC instructions. See MIPS RISC instructions.
native link editor. See ld utility or nld utility.
native mode. See TNS/R native mode.
native-mode code. Object code that has been compiled with TNS/R native compilers to run
on TNS/R systems.
native-mode library. A native-compiled loadfile associated with one or more other native-
compiled loadfiles. A native mode process can have any number of associated native-
mode libraries. See also TNS library and TNS/R library.
native-mode source code. High-level language routines that can be compiled with TNS/R
native compilers.
native object code. See TNS/R native object code.
native object file. See TNS/R native object file.
native object file tool. See noft utility.
native process. See TNS/R native process.
native signal. See TNS/R native signal.