HELP ATTACH — VMS 5.5
Transfers control from your current process (which then
hibernates) to the specified process.
The ATTACH and SPAWN commands cannot be used if your terminal has
an associated mailbox.
Format
ATTACH [process-name]
Additional information available:
PARAMETER
process-name Specifies the name of a parent process or spawned subprocess to which control passes. The process must already exist, be part of your current job, and share the same input stream as your current process. However, the process cannot be your current process or a subprocess created with the /NOWAIT qualifier. Process names can contain from 1 to 15 alphanumeric characters. If a connection to the specified process cannot be made, an error message is displayed. The process-name parameter is incompatible with the /IDENTIFICATION qualifier.
QUALIFIER
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/IDENTIFICATION
/IDENTIFICATION=pid
Specifies the process identification (PID) of the process to
which terminal control will be transferred. Leading zeros can
be omitted. The /IDENTIFICATION qualifier is incompatible with the
process-name parameter.
If you omit the /IDENTIFICATION qualifier, you must specify a
process name.
Examples
1. $ ATTACH JONES_2
Transfers the terminal's control to the subprocess JONES_2.
2. $ ATTACH/IDENTIFICATION=30019
The ATTACH command switches control from the current process
to a process having the PID 30019. Notice that because the
/IDENTIFICATION qualifier is specified, the process-name
parameter is omitted.