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| author | Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx> | 2006-03-14 00:02:37 +0300 |
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| committer | Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx> | 2006-03-14 00:02:37 +0300 |
| commit | 063fd1266048237629929240f923065bf9941abb (patch) | |
| tree | 4c88864915496b0db98d75584fc7d2c88c153c3b | |
| parent | bbca1e4cb97050e1cc646730aedd8269f9474fc2 (diff) | |
* cygwinenv.sgml: Explain about new fork_retry CYGWIN environment variable
setting.
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml | 7 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index ce31b795b..2f33669cf 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-03-13 Christopher Faylor <cgf@timesys.com> + + * cygwinenv.sgml: Explain about new fork_retry CYGWIN environment + variable setting. + 2006-03-07 Bas van Gompel <cygwin-patch.buzz<at>bavag.tmfweb.nl> * cygwinenv.sgml: Add missing </para> at transparent_exe. diff --git a/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml b/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml index b8fa10bd1..63f927e73 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ There is no default set. </para> </listitem> <listitem> -<para><envar>forkchunk:32768</envar> - causes <function>fork()</function> +<para><envar>forkchunk:32768</envar> - causes the <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 @@ -101,6 +101,11 @@ down. </para> </listitem> <listitem> +<para><envar>fork_retry:n</envar> - causes the <function>fork()</function> +to retry n times when a child process fails due to certain specific errors. +</para> +</listitem> +<listitem> <para><envar>(no)glob[:ignorecase]</envar> - if set, command line arguments containing UNIX-style file wildcard characters (brackets, question mark, asterisk, escaped with \) are expanded into lists of files that match |