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 + + * cygwinenv.sgml: Move "forkchunk:xxx" to the removed options section. + Change text accordingly. + 2011-05-10 Corinna Vinschen * 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. - -forkchunk:32768 - causes fork() -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. - - - proc_retry:n - causes fork() and exec*() to retry n times when a child process fails @@ -179,7 +170,7 @@ information, read the documentation in and -codepage:[ansi|oem] - This option controled +codepage:[ansi|oem] - 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 setlocale() function, and in @@ -188,6 +179,14 @@ turn by the setting of the environment variables $LANG, became superfluous. + +forkchunk:[intval] - This option allowed to influence +the fork() 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. + + + (no)ntea - This option has been removed since it only fakes security which is considered dangerous and useless. It also