Actor and Process Identification

Every actor, whether it is a boot actor or a dynamically loaded actor, is uniquely identified by an actor capability (KnCap). When several ChorusOS operating systems are functioning over a network in a distributed system, these capabilities are always unique through space and time. An actor may identify itself with the predefined capability:

K_MYACTOR

The microkernel attributes a capability (KnCap) to each actor. A process is also identified by a local process identifier (PID). This identifier is displayed when the process is executed manually.