...
> But on MPE it turns out that MPE/XL and /iX also
> have a concept of a PID in addition to the 16-bit PIN you're
> probably most familliar with.  In fact the Process Management
> system of MPE internally
> uses this 32-bit PID value, even though hardly any MPE
> commands display PID
> (everyone was used to the old 16-bit PIN so that's what is generally
> displayed by Glance, :SHOWQ, :SHOWPROC, etc.).

FWIW, the relatively new PINFO CI function has ways to deal with
this. HELP PINFO shows:
...
FmtPID              string  MPE internal process ID: 'pin reuse_cnt'
 ## this is a string version of the 32 bit MPE internal PID.
...
PxPID               int     POSIX PID: 16 bit re-use cnt, 16 bit PIN
 ## this is the PID seen in the POSIX shell's ps command, for example
...

 Jeff Vance, vCSY

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