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-rw-r--r--winsup/doc/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml5
-rw-r--r--winsup/doc/new-features.sgml8
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog
index a705415b5..3fae36511 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2012-05-06 Christopher Faylor <me.cygwin2012@cgf.cx>
+
+ * cygwinenv.sgml: Add pipe_byte description.
+ * new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.15): Add new pipe_byte description for
+ 1.7.15.
+
2012-04-25 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.14): Add mouse reporting mode 1005.
diff --git a/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml b/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml
index 2be87c8b2..3a05e9ba3 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml
+++ b/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml
@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ If supplied, wildcard matching is case insensitive. The default is <literal>noi
</listitem>
<listitem>
+<para><envar>(no)pipe_byte</envar> - causes Cygwin to open pipes in byte mode rather than
+message mode.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
<para><envar>proc_retry:n</envar> - causes <function>fork()</function> and
<function>exec*()</function> to retry n times when a child process fails
due to certain windows-specific errors. These errors usually occur when
diff --git a/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml b/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml
index 403d2709e..5562e53ce 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml
+++ b/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
<sect1 id="ov-new1.7"><title>What's new and what changed in Cygwin 1.7</title>
+<sect2 id="ov-new1.7.14"><title>What's new and what changed from 1.7.14 to 1.7.15</title>
+<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
+
+<listitem><para>
+CYGWIN=pipe_byte option now forces the opening of pipes in byte mode rather than message mode.
+</para></listitem>
+</sect2>
+
<sect2 id="ov-new1.7.14"><title>What's new and what changed from 1.7.13 to 1.7.14</title>
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">