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| author | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2013-07-15 18:00:32 +0400 |
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| committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2013-07-15 18:00:32 +0400 |
| commit | f7180e5eac60f63c04b1ab3b709e338e02c5a7ea (patch) | |
| tree | 4f9efd5c634bd2662ce21d43483ce639ea9ddc01 | |
| parent | 4c4693008a2b472b3cd596bd60cd79751b8317c8 (diff) | |
* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.22): New section. Document dropped
support for /dev/mem, /dev/kmem, /dev/port.
* specialnames.xml (pathnames-posixdevices): Drop description of
/dev/mem, /dev/kmem, /dev/port.
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/new-features.xml | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/specialnames.xml | 4 |
3 files changed, 20 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 561e29d01..62a40c23c 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2013-07-15 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> + + * new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.22): New section. Document dropped + support for /dev/mem, /dev/kmem, /dev/port. + * specialnames.xml (pathnames-posixdevices): Drop description of + /dev/mem, /dev/kmem, /dev/port. + 2013-06-24 Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net> * new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.21): New section. Document rawmemchr. diff --git a/winsup/doc/new-features.xml b/winsup/doc/new-features.xml index e24a467c9..dccfdc8e2 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/new-features.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/new-features.xml @@ -4,6 +4,19 @@ <sect1 id="ov-new1.7"><title>What's new and what changed in Cygwin 1.7</title> +<sect2 id="ov-new1.7.22"><title>What's new and what changed from 1.7.21 to 1.7.22</title> + +<itemizedlist mark="bullet"> + +<listitem><para> +Support for /dev/mem, /dev/kmem and /dev/port removed, since OS support +was limited to 32 bit Windows XP only. +</para></listitem> + +</itemizedlist> + +</sect2> + <sect2 id="ov-new1.7.21"><title>What's new and what changed from 1.7.20 to 1.7.21</title> <itemizedlist mark="bullet"> diff --git a/winsup/doc/specialnames.xml b/winsup/doc/specialnames.xml index 71491deac..543a4f127 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/specialnames.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/specialnames.xml @@ -270,10 +270,6 @@ Cygwin supports the following character devices commonly found on POSIX systems: /dev/pipe /dev/fifo -/dev/mem The physical memory of the machine. Note that access to the -/dev/port physical memory has been restricted with Windows Server 2003. -/dev/kmem Since this OS, you can't access physical memory from user space. - /dev/kmsg Kernel message pipe, for usage with sys logger services. /dev/random Random number generator. |