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| author | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2006-02-05 21:19:16 +0300 |
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| committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2006-02-05 21:19:16 +0300 |
| commit | 6fc6eeae9602d692f4fa5a222cd30812032f31ca (patch) | |
| tree | 0bf5ae14354eb4a8125c4efa9b1efd68d781b9ef | |
| parent | fbae2bf8641db16778ddd4348b6cb7a1115d5cca (diff) | |
* cygwinenv.sgml: Explain transparent_exe option.
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| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml | 13 |
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diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 24de452a6..e470fc7c1 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2006-02-05 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> + + * cygwinenv.sgml: Explain transparent_exe option. + 2006-02-01 Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com> * faq-setup.xml (faq.setup.what-packages): diff --git a/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml b/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml index 835f56c17..4783ef1cf 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml @@ -167,6 +167,19 @@ order not to strip, specify <literal>title</literal> or <literal>title nostrip_title</literal>.</para> </listitem> <listitem> +<para><envar>(no)transparent_exe</envar> - EXPERIMENTAL. Only use this +option if you're confident to be able to live with the consequences. If +set, several additional functions in Cygwin will handle files with .exe +suffix transparently. These functions are <function>link(2)</function>, +<function>open(2)</function>, <function>rename(2)</function>, +<function>symlink(2)</function>, <function>unlink(2)</function>, +<function>pathconf(3)</function>. So far, these functions have been +treated as too dangerous to act on files with .exe suffix if the .exe +suffix wasn't given explicitely in the file name argument, and this is +still the case if the transparent_exe option is not set. Default is not +set. +</listitem> +<listitem> <para><envar>(no)traverse</envar> - This option only affects NT systems. If set, Cygwin handles file permissions so that the parent directories' permissions are checked, as it's default on POSIX systems. If not set, |