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The Question is:
Has there been any change in the handling of the process "account string" under
OpenVMS Alpha 7.2?
Previously, privileged-mode software which set the process account string had
that string propagated to batch and print jobs submitted from that process. We
have software that uses this capability for job tracking, and it has always
worked fine, at least
up to 7.1.
Under Alpha 7.2-2, this appears to be behaving differently in that batch and
print jobs are always getting the SYSUAF account string for the user, and
there doesn't seem to be any reason.
Thanks for your help.
Steve Duff
Ergodic Systems, Inc.
The Answer is :
There were changes to specific kernel-mode data structures in V7.2 and
later, and specifically changes around the implementation of the
per-thread security support. Effectively, information once stored
within the PCB is now replicated for each thread as a (new) structure
known as the PSB. (There are details in the V7.2 documentation.)
Code using undocumented interfaces -- whether user- or kernel-mode --
has an unfortunate and occasional potential for occasional breakage.
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