process Token

The process token contains information describing a process as an object such as the recipient of a signal. The token has 9 fields: a token ID that identifies this token as a process token, the invariant audit ID, the effective user ID, the effective group ID, the real user ID, the real group ID, the process ID, the audit session ID, and a terminal ID. Figure A-20 shows a process token.

Figure A-20 process Token Format

The audit ID, user ID, group ID, process ID, and session ID are long instead of short.

The process token fields for the session ID, the real user ID, or the real group ID might be unavailable. The entry is then set to -1.

For the Solaris 7 release, the process token can be displayed using a 64-bit device ID, in place of the 32-bit value.

For the Solaris 8 release, the terminal ID can report an IPv6 address by changing the format to use either 4 or 8 bytes to describe the device, 16 bytes to describe the type, and 16 bytes to descibe the address.