ISO/IEC INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 13719-1 Second edition 1998-10-01 Information technology Portable Common Tool Environment (PCTE) - Part 1: Abstract specification TechnologiesdeI'informationEnvironnementd'outilcourant portable (PCTE) - Partie 1: Spécifications abstraites IEC Reference number ISO/IEC 13719-1:1998(E) No r py IHS under Not for Resale ISO/IEC 13719-1:1998(E) Contents 1 Scope 1 2 Conformance 1 2.1 Conformance of binding 1 2.2 Conformance of implementation 2 2.3 Conformance of DDL texts and processors 3 3 Normative references 3 4 Definitions 4 4.1 Technical terms 4 4.2 Other terms 4 5 Formal notations 5 6 Overview of PCTE 5 6.1 PCTE structural architecture 5 6.2 Object management system 6 6.3 Object base 6 6.4 Schema management 6 6.5 Self-representation and predefined SDSs 7 6.6 Object contents 7 6.7 Process execution 8 6.8 Monitoring 6.9 Communication between processes 8 6.10 Notification 8 6.11 Concurrency and integrity control 8 6.12 Distribution 9 6.13 Replication 9 6.14 Security 10 6.15 Accounting 10 6.16 Implementation limits 10 6.17 Support of fine-grain objects 11 6.18 Support of object-orientation 11 7 Outline of the Standard 11 ISO/IEC1998 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from the publisher. ISO/IEC Copyright Office · Case postale 56 · CH-1211 Geneve 20 · Switzerland Printed in Switzerland ted without license from IHS Not or Resale ISO/IEC 13719-1:1998(E) @ISO/IEC 8 Foundation 13 8.1 The state 13 8.2 The object base 14 8.2.1 Objects 14 8.2.2 Attributes 15 8.2.3 Links 16 8.3 Types 17 8.3.1 Object types 17 8.3.2 Attribute types 18 8.3.3 Link types 19 8.3.4 Enumeral types 23 8.4 Types in SDS 23 8.4.1 Object types in SDS 25 8.4.2 Attribute types in SDS 25 8.4.3 Link types in SDS 26 8.4.4 Enumeral types in SDS 26 8.5 Types in working schema 26 8.5.1 Object types in working schema 27 8.5.2 Attribute types in working schema 28 8.5.3 Link types in working schema 28 8.5.4 Enumeral types in working schema 28 8.6 Types in global schema 28 8.7 Operations 29 8.7.1 Calling process 29 8.7.2 Direct and indirect effects 29 8.7.3 Errors 32 8.7.4 Operation serializability 33 9 Object management 33 9.1 Object management concepts 33 9.1.1 The basic type "object" 33 9.1.2 The common root 37 9.1.3 Datatypes for object management 37 9.2 Link operations 37 9.3 Object operations 47 9.4 Version operations 61 10 Schema management 69 10.1 Schema management concepts 69 10.1.1 Schema definition sets and the SDS directory 69 10.1.2 2 Types 70 10.1.3 Object types 71 10.1.4 Attribute types 72 CopyrhtIntenationalOrganizationforStandardization ili ed without license from IHS Not or Resale @ ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 13719-1:1998(E) 10.1.5 Link types 73 10.1.6 Enumeral types 74 10.1.7 Datatypes for schema management 75 10.2 SDS update operations 75 10.3 SDS usage operations 105 10.4 Working schema operations 112 11 Volumes, devices, and archives 117 11.1 Volume, device, and archiving concepts 117 11.1.1 Volumes 117 11.1.2 Administration volumes 118 11.1.3 Devices 118 11.1.4 Archives 119 11.2 Volume, device, and archive operations 120 12 Files, pipes, and devices 128 12.1 File, pipe, and device concepts 128 12.2 File, pipe, and device operations 132 13 Process execution 140 13.1 Process execution concepts 140 13.1.1 Static contexts 140 13.1.2 Foreign execution images 141 13.1.3 Execution classes 141 13.1.4 Processes 142 13.1.5 Initial processes 149 13.1.6 Profiling and monitoring concepts 150 13.2 Process execution operations 150 13.3 Security operations 166 13.4 Profiling operations 171 13.5 Monitoring operations 172 14 Message queues 174 14.1 Message queue concepts 174 14.2 Message queue operations 177 15 Notification 183 15.1 Notification concepts 183 15.1.1 Access events and notifiers 183 15.1.2 Notification messages 184 15.1.3 Time of sending notificatio