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* cygwinenv.sgml: Explain about new fork_retry CYGWIN environment variable 

setting.
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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.

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</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
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</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