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Subject: Needed: info on SYS$IMGSTA
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Date: Tue, 29-Jul-86 12:37:00 EDT
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Problem:

	While running an interactive simulation package (called
BASILE, f.y.i.), I give the command parser a particular command
to read in a function definition from a file. Well, next thing
I know, my process has been DELETED! It's very consistent about
doing this to me. It is not logged out in the usual sense, since
I get no message like 'USER logged out at ...'. It is stopped
as abruptly as if someone had entered STOP/ID=xxx (which isn't
the case, for certain).

Question:

	What RTL routines, system services, or unexpected conditions
can cause this kind of behavior??? It is not a CPU limit that
is doing it, but for all I know it might be some other quota. I
just don't know, and I need to get on to the next stage of the
project REAL BAD. I linked the image (I have all object modules
necessary to link) with a full map, and poked through the symbols
hoping to find something obvious like SYS$DELPRC, but the only
SYS$ routines I found were $ASSIGN, $QIOW, $GETSYIW, and a
service called $IMGSTA. I haven't poked through the document set
to find $IMGSTA, but I did look in the System Services reference
(volume 8D, VMS4.4 doc-set). There was no entry for $IMGSTA.

Could this be the culprit??? Does anybody know what $IMGSTA does?
Can anybody tell me why I'm losing processes right and left? Can
I stop asking questions?

Please reply to me directly or to info-vax as you see fit.

One further tid-bit for real system hackers: I tried RUN/DUMP,
and I do have a dump file, but the termination message was
about priv'ed images needing to be installed. If anyone can direct
me to useful information from ANAL/PROC, I'll be grateful, even.

Thanks,

Todd Aven
Systems Engineering
(301)345-1692

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