Global Name
The Name Service Interface (NSI) uses global names for the names of name service entries. A global name includes both a cell name and a cell-relative name composed of a directory path name and a leaf name. For a description of global names, see the OSF DCE Administration Guide - Introduction. The cell name is assigned to a cell root at its creation. When you specify only a cell-relative name to an NSI operation, the NSI automatically expands the name into a global name by inserting the local cell name. Thus, the name of a member in a group or in a profile element is always stored as a global name. When returning the name of a name service entry or a member, NSI operations return global names.
For example, even when you specify a cell-relative name as the member_name parameter to routine rpc_ns_group_mbr_add( ), when you read that group member (by calling rpc_ns_group_mbr_inq_next( )), you will receive the corresponding global name.