Open System Services Programmer's Guide

Changes Made to the 520574-021 Edition (February 2014)
The following information was added and changed for the J06.17 and H06.28 RVUs:
• Added information about the OSS Script Languages (T1203) product in “Overview of the
OSS Programming Environment” (page 26)
The following general information was added and changed:
• Revised the conditions for proper operation of the thread-aware toolkit and thread-aware
$RECEIVE in:
◦ “Caveats to Using the Thread-Aware Toolkit ” (page 372)
◦ “Caveats to Using Thread-Aware $RECEIVE” (page 376)
◦ “Caveats to Using the Thread-Aware Toolkit ” (page 414)
◦ “Caveats to Using Thread-Aware $RECEIVE” (page 418)
Changes Made to the 520574-020 Edition (August 2013)
The following information was added and changed for the J06.16 and H06.27 RVUs:
• Added and revised information about the OSS Core Utilities (T1202) product in “OSS Tools”
(page 44):
◦ Revised information about the vim editing tool in “Editing Tools” (page 44)
◦ Added GNU Diffutils, make, and patch information to “C Development Utilities”
(page 45)
The following general information was added and changed:
• Added information to “OSS SEEP Design” (page 283) about a possible deadlock between the
OSS SEEP process and the OSS name server process unless attribute 158 is used when calling
PROCESS_GETINFOLIST_
• Revised information about the SIGUNCP signal being supported on only H-series RVUs in:
“Types of Signals” (page 318)◦
◦ “Signals Processed by Threads” (page 385)
Changes Made to the 520574-019 Edition (February 2013)
The following information was added and changed for the J06.15 and H06.26 RVUs:
• Added information about the new OSS Security Event-Exit Process (SEEP) features:
New “Accessing OSS SEEP-Protected Files” (page 83) section◦
◦ “OSS File-System Functions” (page 90)
◦ “Guardian File-System Procedures” (page 100)
◦ “OSS Process-Management Functions” (page 149)
◦ “Guardian Process-Management Procedures” (page 156)
◦ “OSS Interprocess-Communication Functions” (page 196)
◦ “Guardian Interprocess-Communication Procedures” (page 203)
◦ “Common and Unique Characteristics” (page 249)
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