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* cygwinenv.sgml: Move "forkchunk:xxx" to the removed options section.

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2011-05-10 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* cygwinenv.sgml: Move "forkchunk:xxx" to the removed options section.
Change text accordingly.
2011-05-10 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* setup2.sgml (setup-env-ov): Make sure everybody knows that the

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</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><envar>forkchunk:32768</envar> - causes <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
down.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><envar>proc_retry:n</envar> - causes <function>fork()</function> and
<function>exec*()</function> to retry n times when a child process fails
@ -179,7 +170,7 @@ information, read the documentation in <xref linkend="mount-table"></xref> and
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><envar>codepage:[ansi|oem]</envar> - This option controled
<para><envar>codepage:[ansi|oem]</envar> - This option controlled
which character set is used for file and console operations. Since Cygwin
is now doing all character conversion by itself, depending on the
application call to the <function>setlocale()</function> function, and in
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became superfluous.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><envar>forkchunk:[intval]</envar> - This option allowed to influence
the <function>fork()</function> function in the way the memory of the
parent process gets copied to the child process. This functionality was
only useful for Windows 95/98/Me.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><envar>(no)ntea</envar> - This option has been removed since it
only fakes security which is considered dangerous and useless. It also