todd@CINCOM.UMD.EDU.UUCP (07/29/86)
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 BITNET: AVEN@UMDHEP, TODD@UMCINCOM ARPA: aven%umdhep.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu, todd@cincom.umd.edu UUCP? ------