Priority and non-priority commands

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 z/VM guest

VINPUT commands require a VMSG (non-priority) or PVMSG (priority) specification.

Operating systems that accept this specification, process priority commands with a higher priority than non-priority commands.

The hardware console driver can accept both if supported by the hardware console within the specific machine or virtual machine.

Linux® does not distinguish between priority and non-priority commands.

Example

The specifications:
#CP VINPUT VMSG LS -L
and
#CP VINPUT PVMSG LS -L
are equivalent.