From 063fd1266048237629929240f923065bf9941abb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christopher Faylor Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:02:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * cygwinenv.sgml: Explain about new fork_retry CYGWIN environment variable setting. --- winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml | 7 ++++++- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 + + * cygwinenv.sgml: Explain about new fork_retry CYGWIN environment + variable setting. + 2006-03-07 Bas van Gompel bavag.tmfweb.nl> * cygwinenv.sgml: Add missing 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. -forkchunk:32768 - causes fork() +forkchunk:32768 - causes the fork() 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. +fork_retry:n - causes the fork() +to retry n times when a child process fails due to certain specific errors. + + + (no)glob[:ignorecase] - 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