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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000,
+2001, 2002, 2010, 2011, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+This call is made by a new task to its bootstrap port to get its startup ports
+and information.
+
+Implemented regularely by the [[hurd/translator/exec]] server
+(`exec/exec.c`:`S_exec_startup_get_info`), and also [[hurd/translator]]s based
+on [[hurd/libdiskfs]]
+(`libdiskfs/boot-start.c`:`diskfs_S_exec_startup_get_info`) because these *look
+like an execserver to the execserver itself; it makes this call (as does any
+task) to get its state*.
+
+Used solely in [[glibc's process startup|glibc/process]]
+(`hurd/hurdstartup.c`:`_hurd_startup`).