>How will this play with 8-character userids? The same way as it already does and always did with 8-character jobname: The jobname is not modified.
> There's no rule that JOBNAMEs must be prefixed with userid. But fork() and non-local spawn() need a rule to build a jobname for the new process address space. >How does cancelling the parent job affect its children? Might they continue >running? The same way it works on any unix: Child processed are terminated when the parent terminates. -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
