Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!YALE.ARPA!LEICHTER-JERRY From: LEICHTER-JERRY@YALE.ARPA Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Process startup parameters Message-ID: <8704160513.AA21370@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Thu, 16-Apr-87 00:13:45 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8704160513.AA21370 Posted: Thu Apr 16 00:13:45 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Apr-87 04:56:33 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 18 Does anyone know where VMS process startup is documented? In particular, I would like to find out what parameters are passed to a new process when it starts up. I have looked at some fiche for the C run-time and it looks like there are 6 or 7 interesting parameters, but I have not been able to find any documentation on these. I believe that one of these parameters is a descriptor for the open executable file (or a descriptor for the name of the file). These parameters are not documented anywhere except in the code. They have also changed, in fairly major ways, at each of the major releases of VMS so far. So...spend some time with the fiche, then use with the knowledge that whatever you do is highly likely to break when V5 hits the streets. -- Jerry -------