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| author | Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx> | 2006-04-03 07:37:52 +0400 |
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| committer | Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx> | 2006-04-03 07:37:52 +0400 |
| commit | 0a75feea6682e59cd30837f9c44e96f287256021 (patch) | |
| tree | d51ac8acae69dc4e9d289fb66d6e612931b48ddf /winsup/doc | |
| parent | b7b1c2d787cc76c6db285e18aea4c4f07a21059d (diff) | |
* cygwinenv.sgml: Rename fork_retry to proc_retry since it has turned out to be
more general than just fork.
Diffstat (limited to 'winsup/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml | 5 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 2f33669cf..938550514 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-03-18 Christopher Faylor <cgf@timesys.com> + + * cygwinenv.sgml: Rename fork_retry to proc_retry since it has turned + out to be more general than just fork. + 2006-03-13 Christopher Faylor <cgf@timesys.com> * cygwinenv.sgml: Explain about new fork_retry CYGWIN environment diff --git a/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml b/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml index 63f927e73..9cec61aae 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml @@ -101,8 +101,9 @@ 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><envar>proc_retry:n</envar> - causes the <function>fork()</function> and <function>exec*()</function> +to retry n times when a child process fails due to certain windows-specific errors. These errors usually +occur when processes are being started while a user is logging off. </para> </listitem> <listitem> |