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Expand Up @@ -118,11 +118,14 @@ nothing ever wakes. That is not a substitute for a sleep; it is a sleep,
expressed with the operation this system has.

**There is no kernel call that starts a program relative to a directory.** The
directory is entered by the duplicate before it replaces itself — a duplicate
that exists for the length of two calls and is not a resource the caller
program's name is made absolute from the path of the base directory
(`F_GETPATH`) before the program is duplicated, and the duplicate enters the
working directory the caller named before it replaces itself --- a duplicate
that exists for the length of a few calls and is not a resource the caller
receives, which is exactly what openkal declines to offer as an operation of its
own. The caller's working directory is untouched, which is the property the
interface requires.
interface requires. Because the program is started by its absolute name, no
descriptor has to survive the start for a program that needs an interpreter.

**A started program receives the three streams and its grants, and nothing
else.** Clause 7.13. Every source is first moved above the positions being
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