I tried to have Apache/iX execute a Pascal/XL program as a CGI, and the
Pascal program aborts thusly:

SOFTWARE ABORT   (FSERR 32)
FILE OPEN ERROR (PASCERR 692)
FILE IS 'OUTPUT'
ABORT: /APACHE/PUB/public_html/mpe.cgi
NM SYS   a.00ac2288 dbg_abort_trace+$24
NM USER  18d.003caa34 P__PASCFERROR+$3e0
NM PROG  1079.000051d4 PROGRAM+$7c

So if a POSIX program (Apache/iX) is exec()-ing an MPE program, are the
POSIX file descriptors for stdin,stdout,stderr being inherited by the MPE
program as $stdin, $stdlist, and stderr?

Before I got involved with Apache, I seem to remember discussion about this
stuff on HP3000-L, but I forget the details.  Is there anything magic I need
to do on the POSIX side to enable the MPE side to inherit the descriptors, or
do I have to access these descriptors in a special manner from the MPE side?
Or is there just no way an MPE program can use a POSIX ancestor's file
descriptors?
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