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authorChristopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>2006-03-13 21:02:37 +0000
committerChristopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>2006-03-13 21:02:37 +0000
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* cygwinenv.sgml: Explain about new fork_retry CYGWIN environment variable
setting.
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@@ -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 b8fa10b..63f927e 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