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This is a clumsy way to deal with Unix's lack of
a union directory for
.BR /bin .
+.PP
+To avoid name conflicts with the underlying system,
+.I exec
+and
+.I execl
+are preprocessor macros defined as
+.I p9exec
+and
+.IR p9execl ;
+see
+.IR intro (3).