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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013, 2014 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+/!\ Does this actually reflect reality?
+
+[[!tag open_issue_documentation open_issue_gnumach]]
+
+A `task_set_name` RPC has been added to GNU Mach.  Before, the Mach debugger
+looked for `arg[0]` on the stack using ugly heuristics (see
+`gnumach/i386/i386/db_interface.c`, `looks_like_command`...).  Now we can let
+`exec` simply set the name and record it in `task_t`.  After adding the RPC,
+glibc needs to be recompiled against the updated `mach.defs` to get access to
+it from userland, and exec would probably call it from `hurd/exec/exec.c`,
+`do_exec()`.  Also see the discussion on
+[[open_issues/translate_fd_or_port_to_file_name]].