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| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml | 19 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 3e69c5121..2103e86fa 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ 2011-05-10 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> + * cygwinenv.sgml: Move "forkchunk:xxx" to the removed options section. + Change text accordingly. + +2011-05-10 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> + * setup2.sgml (setup-env-ov): Make sure everybody knows that the CYGWIN settings are just an example. diff --git a/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml b/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml index ea1f0747f..bb4b669de 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml @@ -44,15 +44,6 @@ There is no default set. </listitem> <listitem> -<para><envar>forkchunk:32768</envar> - causes <function>fork()</function> -to copy memory some number of bytes at a time, in the above example -32768 bytes (32Kb) at a time. The default is to copy as many bytes as -possible, which is preferable in most cases but may slow some older systems -down. -</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 @@ -179,7 +170,7 @@ information, read the documentation in <xref linkend="mount-table"></xref> and </listitem> <listitem> -<para><envar>codepage:[ansi|oem]</envar> - This option controled +<para><envar>codepage:[ansi|oem]</envar> - This option controlled which character set is used for file and console operations. Since Cygwin is now doing all character conversion by itself, depending on the application call to the <function>setlocale()</function> function, and in @@ -189,6 +180,14 @@ became superfluous.</para> </listitem> <listitem> +<para><envar>forkchunk:[intval]</envar> - This option allowed to influence +the <function>fork()</function> function in the way the memory of the +parent process gets copied to the child process. This functionality was +only useful for Windows 95/98/Me. +</para> +</listitem> + +<listitem> <para><envar>(no)ntea</envar> - This option has been removed since it only fakes security which is considered dangerous and useless. It also created an uncontrollably large file on FAT and was entirely useless |