Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!rich
From: rich@eddie.MIT.EDU (Richard Caloggero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Suspending processes
Message-ID: <7701@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 18 Dec 87 15:05:08 GMT
References: <179@idacom.UUCP>
Reply-To: rich@eddie.MIT.EDU (Richard Caloggero)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
Lines: 39
Keywords: DC DS suspend

In article <179@idacom.UUCP> danny@idacom.UUCP (Danny Wilson) writes:
>I am aware of the commands to Suspend and Continue processes
>using the DS and DC DM commands. However, does anyone
>out there know how to do it if a pad to that process 
>does not exist?
>
>i.e. How do you suspend a print server running in background
>given its process name or UID??
>
>Thanks
>Danny Wilson
>IDACOM Electronics	alberta!teletron!idacom!danny
>			danny@idacom.uucp


     A while back, I was poking around in some of the runtime *system*
     libraries and noticed the following calls:
	proc2_$suspend (puid, status); proc2_$resume (puid, status);
	PM_$NAME_TO_PUID (NAME,NAME_LEN, PUID, STATUS); pm_$get_name
	(puid, name,name_len, status); proc2_$quit (puid, status).

All of these calls take arguments of the expected types.

     I do have one favor to ask people out there in netland relating to
     this point.  All of the formentioned calls are, I think,
documented in "Programming With Domain Advanced System Called", order
#008542.  My problem is that we never got this document when we got our
systems.  Also, I am blind, and even if we had a copy, it wouldn't do
me much good. I recently talked to a friend of mine who works at
Apollo, and he claimed that there is no on-line document which contains
this info. Can anyone out there verify this or provide me with such an
on-line document?  Documentation has always been a problem for me, so
any help/advice in this area would be incredibly valuable to me!!
Thanx in advance!!
-- 
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