Lee Gunter writes:
> We're also assuming that a child process
> inherits the stack characteristics of its parent (I think that's how MPE/iX
> works   <:-|  ).

That's only true for POSIX processes created via fork()/exec(), and the chain
of inheritance will stretch all the way back to /SYS/HPBIN/SH.

Processes created via the traditional CREATEPROCESS() run with their own
stack attributes.
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