HP 9000 300 Series Owner's Manual page 148

Glossary
operating system
The contents of
control, system accounting, storage assignment, and other services.
kernel
OSF
Open Software Foundation.
owner
The owner of a le is usually the creator of that le. However, the
ownership of a le can be changed by the superuser or the current owner
with the
parent process ID
A parent process identi cation.
password
An encrypted sequence of characters used by HP-UX to identify an
authorized user and to permit authorized login on a system.
path name
(Two words, except as an italicized argument,
A sequence of directory names, separated by slashes, which specify the
location of any le or directory.
PID
Process identity (number).
pop-up menu
A menu that remains invisible until a user action or some condition in the
program causes the menu to display. Typically the user either presses the
\menu button" on the mouse (a common default is button 3), or presses the
\menu key" on the keyboard (a common default is F10).
POSIX
POrtable Systems Interface (for UN*X). UN*X standard from IEEE.
Posix Shell
POSIX-compliant version of the Korn Shell.
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, including the kernel, commands, input-output
/hp-ux
.
chown(1) command or the chown(2) system call.
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PID
pathname .)
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