--- /n/sources/plan9/sys/man/2/exec Wed Aug 19 16:53:17 2009 +++ /sys/man/2/exec Wed Aug 17 00:00:00 2016 @@ -198,3 +198,8 @@ The kernel constant .B TSTKSIZ controls this. +.PP +Both functions rely upon the system's demand paging, +which in turn expects to be able to read full pages in a single +.I read +operation, no matter what the underlying file server is.