From f7180e5eac60f63c04b1ab3b709e338e02c5a7ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Corinna Vinschen Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:00:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.22): New section. Document dropped support for /dev/mem, /dev/kmem, /dev/port. * specialnames.xml (pathnames-posixdevices): Drop description of /dev/mem, /dev/kmem, /dev/port. --- winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ winsup/doc/new-features.xml | 13 +++++++++++++ winsup/doc/specialnames.xml | 4 ---- 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 561e29d01..62a40c23c 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2013-07-15 Corinna Vinschen + + * new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.22): New section. Document dropped + support for /dev/mem, /dev/kmem, /dev/port. + * specialnames.xml (pathnames-posixdevices): Drop description of + /dev/mem, /dev/kmem, /dev/port. + 2013-06-24 Yaakov Selkowitz * new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.21): New section. Document rawmemchr. diff --git a/winsup/doc/new-features.xml b/winsup/doc/new-features.xml index e24a467c9..dccfdc8e2 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/new-features.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/new-features.xml @@ -4,6 +4,19 @@ What's new and what changed in Cygwin 1.7 +What's new and what changed from 1.7.21 to 1.7.22 + + + + +Support for /dev/mem, /dev/kmem and /dev/port removed, since OS support +was limited to 32 bit Windows XP only. + + + + + + What's new and what changed from 1.7.20 to 1.7.21 diff --git a/winsup/doc/specialnames.xml b/winsup/doc/specialnames.xml index 71491deac..543a4f127 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/specialnames.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/specialnames.xml @@ -270,10 +270,6 @@ Cygwin supports the following character devices commonly found on POSIX systems: /dev/pipe /dev/fifo -/dev/mem The physical memory of the machine. Note that access to the -/dev/port physical memory has been restricted with Windows Server 2003. -/dev/kmem Since this OS, you can't access physical memory from user space. - /dev/kmsg Kernel message pipe, for usage with sys logger services. /dev/random Random number generator.