diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 3e69c5121..2103e86fa 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +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 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 @@ -43,15 +43,6 @@ There is no default set. </para> </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 @@ -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 @@ -188,6 +179,14 @@ turn by the setting of the environment variables <envar>$LANG</envar>, 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