HP-UX Reference (11i v2 03/08) - 1M System Administration Commands A-M (vol 3)

getmemwindow(1M) getmemwindow(1M)

NAME

getmemwindow - extracts window ids of user processes from /etc/services.window

SYNOPSIS

getmemwindow string

DESCRIPTION

getmemwindow is the command used to extract window ids of user processes from the

/etc/services.window

ﬁle. User applications are encouraged to place a unique string deﬁning an

application and its associated window id in the

/etc/services.window

ﬁle and then extract that

window id using the

getmemwindow command.

This allows for changing the application window id in one central location, rather than changing scripts

with hard-coded values, in the event of a memory window collision between two applications.

EXAMPLES

# Extract the window id for "HP" from the /etc/services.window file

# and start the program "HP_startup_script" with arguments arg1 and

# arg2.

WinId=$(getmemwindow HP)

setmemwindow -i $WinId HP_startup_script arg1 arg2

AUTHOR

getmemwindow was developed by HP.

FILES

/etc/services.window

File containing applications’ associated window id.