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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2009
+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]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!meta title="file_exec"]]
+
+ routine file_exec (
+ exec_file: file_t;
+ RPT
+ exec_task: task_t;
+ flags: int;
+ argv: data_t SCP;
+ envp: data_t SCP;
+ fdarray: portarray_t SCP;
+ portarray: portarray_t SCP;
+ intarray: intarray_t SCP;
+ deallocnames: mach_port_name_array_t SCP;
+ destroynames: mach_port_name_array_t SCP);
+
+Overlay a task with a file. Necessary initialization, including authentication
+changes associated with set[ug]id execution must be handled by the filesystem.
+Filesystems normally implement this by using [[`exec_newtask`|exec_newtask]] or
+[[`exec_loadtask`|exec_loadtask]] as appropriate.