HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 197)

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Supplementary group ID
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Saved-set group ID
group list. A process attribute that is used with the effective group ID of the process to determine the file
access permissions for the process.
group. In the Open System Services (OSS) environment, a set of user IDs with the same group ID.
Guardian An environment available for interactive or programmatic use with the HP NonStop operating
system. Processes that run in the Guardian environment usually use the Guardian system procedure
calls as their application program interface; interactive users of the Guardian environment usually
use the HP Tandem Advanced Command Language (TACL) or another HP product’s command
interpreter. Contrast with
Open System Services (OSS).
Guardian
environment The Guardian application program interface (API), tools, and utilities.
Guardian services An application program interface (API) to the HP NonStop operating system, plus the tools and
utilities associated with that API. Synonymous with “Guardian environment.”
See also
Guardian .
hard link. The relationship between two directory entries for the same file. A hard link acts as an additional
pointer to a file. A hard link cannot be used to point to a file in another file system. Contrast with
symbolic link .
header. An object that, when specified for inclusion in a program’s source code, causes the program to
behave as if the statement including the header were actually a specific set of other programming
statements. A header contains coded information that provides details (such as data item length)
about the data that the header precedes.
In an Open System Services (OSS) program, a header is the name of a file known to the run-time
library used by a process. In a Guardian environment C language program, a header is the file
identifier for a file known to the run-time library used by a process.
HP NonStop Open
System Services
(OSS) The product name for the OSS environment.
See also
Open System Services (OSS). .
HP NonStop
operating system The operating system for HP NonStop systems.
HP NonStop user
ID The unique identification of a user within a HP NonStop system. The structured view of this user
ID consists of either the group-number, user-number pair of values or the
group-name.user-name
pair of values; the structured view is normally used in the Guardian
environment. The scalar view of this user ID consists of (group-number*256) + user-number;
the scalar view is normally used in the Open System Services (OSS) environment as the OSS UID.
See also
UID , user ID .
I18N. See internationalization. .
ideogram. See ideograph. .
ideograph. A character or symbol representing a word or idea. Some writing systems, such as Japanese and
Chinese, use thousands of ideographs. An ideograph is sometimes called an “ideogram.”
IEC. The International Electrotechnical Committee. The IEC is a professional organization that creates
or adopts standards for computer hardware, environments, and physical interconnections.
IEEE. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The IEEE is a professional organization whose
committees develop and propose computer standards that define the physical and data link
protocols of entities such as communication networks.
implementation-defined.
Not specified by a standard. A correct value or behavior that is implementation-defined can vary
from system to system and therefore might represent a feature or facility that cannot be ported.
inode A data structure that stores the location of a file.
inode number. A unique identifier within the Open System Services (OSS) file system of an instance of an OSS
file. The inode number identifies the instance within the file system catalogs.
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