HP NonStop G-Series User Manual
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See also
file transfer
protocol (FTP)
1. The Internet-standard, high-level protocol for transferring files from one machine to another.
The server side requires the client to supply a logon identifier and password before it honors
requests. It makes no assumptions about the file-naming structure of the source and destination
systems. It allows the file names of each system to be represented in the vernacular.
2. The application used to send complete files over Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
(TCP/IP) services.
File Transfer,
Access, and
Management
(FTAM)
The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) standard developed by the International Standards
Organization for network file exchange and management services.
file.
An object to which data can be written or from which data can be read. A file has attributes
such as access permissions and a file type. In the Open System Services (OSS) environment, file
types include regular file, character special file, block special file, FIFO, and directory.
filename.
In the Open System Services (OSS) environment, a component of a pathname containing any
valid characters other than a slash (/) or a null. In the Guardian environment, a filename is the
set of node name, volume name, subvolume name, and file identifier characters that uniquely
identifies a file.
fileset.
In the Open System Services (OSS) environment, a set of files with a common mount point within
the file hierarchy. A fileset can be part or all of a single virtual file system.
On a HP NonStop system, the Guardian file system for a node has a mount point and is a subset
of the OSS virtual file system. The entire Guardian file system therefore could be viewed as a
single fileset. However, each volume, and each process of subtype 30, within the Guardian file
system is actually a separate fileset.
The term “file system” is often used interchangeably with “fileset” in UNIX documentation.
FIPS 151-1.
The Federal Information Processing Standard that specifies the requirements for conformance to
an older draft of POSIX.1 than the version adopted as ISO/IEC IS 9945-1:1990 (FIPS 151-1
describes conformance to IEEE Std. 1003.1-1988) and imposes some additional requirements.
FIPS 151-2.
The Federal Information Processing Standard that specifies the requirements for conformance to
POSIX.1 as ISO/IEC IS 9945-1:1990 and imposes some additional requirements.
FIPS.
A Federal Information Processing Standard of the United States government.
flag.
In a command, a character sequence that is processed as a unit and begins with a hyphen.
foreground process
group ID.
The process group ID of a foreground process group.
foreground process
group.
A process group whose members have privileges for access to their controlling terminal that are
denied to processes in background process groups of that terminal. Each session with a controlling
terminal has only one foreground process group for that terminal.
foreground
process.
A process that belongs to a foreground process group.
free list
The list of available inodes that can be allocated to files.
FTAM.
See
File Transfer, Access, and Management (FTAM)
FTP.
See
gateway.
A device used to convert the message protocol of one network to that of another.
group database.
A database for a node. The group database contains the group name, group ID, and user names
for each group using that node.
group ID.
The nonnegative integer used to identify a group of users of a HP NonStop network node. Each
user of that node is a member of at least one group. When the identity of a group is associated
with a process, a group ID value is referred to as one of the following identifiers:
•
Real group ID
•
Effective group ID
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