participant-index OpenVMS usage longword_unsigned type longword (unsigned) access read only mechanism by reference Index of the caller within this application. The participant- index argument is the address of an unsigned longword that contains this index. Participant-index is assigned at process creation time and is unique for each participant. pid OpenVMS usage longword_unsigned type longword (unsigned) access write only mechanism by reference PID (process identifier) of the OpenVMS process associated with the specified participant-index. The pid argument is the address of an unsigned longword that receives this PID.