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14 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Jon Turney 38965159df
Cygwin: Add winsymlinks:sys
Add winsymlinks:sys, to explicitly select always using plain files with
the system attribute containing a magic cookie to represent a symlink.
2021-07-30 15:48:26 +01:00
Jon Turney f2a285bd4f
Cygwin: Slightly improve error_start documentation 2020-07-12 15:09:38 +01:00
Corinna Vinschen 13bfb3c63f Cygwin: remove CYGWIN=dos_file_warning option
This option has been disabled long ago and nobody missed it.
Removing drops a bit of unneeded code

Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
2020-01-28 21:59:25 +01:00
Takashi Yano cdf5db22f1 Cygwin: pty: Introduce disable_pcon in environment CYGWIN.
- For programs which does not work properly with pseudo console,
  disable_pcon in environment CYGWIN is introduced. If disable_pcon
  is set, pseudo console support is disabled.
2020-01-22 10:56:10 +01:00
Corinna Vinschen cb34fffe07 Remove CYGWIN=detect_bloda option 2016-06-25 00:43:01 +02:00
Corinna Vinschen 54c284caf2 Remove XP and Server 2003 from documentation
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
2016-06-24 23:21:10 +02:00
Corinna Vinschen 83029bb69e Remove references to older Cygwin releases from documentation
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
2016-03-18 22:52:04 +01:00
Corinna Vinschen db9a8c9983 * Throughout, replace http with https as far as cygwin.com and
sourceware.org URLs are concerned.
	* Throughout, simplify ulink expressions if the visible text is the
	URL anyway.
	* faq-programming.xml (faq.programming.dll-relocatable): Remove.
	* faq-setup.xml (faq.setup.name-with-space): Change for 1.7.34.
	(faq.setup.home): Ditto.
	* faq-using.xml (faq.using.printing): Clarify old links and availability
	of a2ps and file.
	(faq.using.xemacs): Drop outdated version info and pointers to native
	XEmacs.
	(faq.using.ntemacs): Remove.
	* faq-what.xml (faq.what.what): Rephrase to reflect reality.
	(faq.what.supported): Ditto.
	(faq.what.who): Rephrase slightly.
	* legal.xml: Bump copyright.
	* setup-net.xml (internet-setup): Fix references to setup executables.
2015-02-03 13:48:43 +00:00
Corinna Vinschen 204ba7e238 * cygwinenv.xml (cygwinenv-removed-options): Accommodate list of
always uppercased Windows variables to latest change.
2015-01-14 11:00:47 +00:00
Corinna Vinschen 24485a663c * cygwinenv.xml: Change default setting of dosfilewarning.
* new-features.xml (ov-new1.7.33): Document aforementioned change.
2014-10-28 10:47:38 +00:00
Christopher Faylor 033fe7d87f cygwin directory changes:
* environ.cc (tty_is_gone): Delete.
	(known): Delete tty, add wincmdln.
	* globals.cc: Reorganize list of environment bools, remove explicit =
	false for slight load time optimization.
	(wincmdln): New global.
	* spawn.cc (child_info_spawn::worker): Honor wincmdln.

doc directory changes:
	* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.23): Add new section.  Mention wincmdln.
	* cygwinenv.xml: Mention wincmdln.
2013-07-26 17:28:00 +00:00
Corinna Vinschen 2e72b72fcc * cygwinenv.xml: Fix link to FAQ. 2013-06-17 08:29:34 +00:00
Corinna Vinschen 6d383d0fde * cygwinenv.xml (cygwinenv-implemented-options): Explain new
winsymliks:nativestrict option.  Strip out description of symlink types
	and refer to new pathnames-symlinks section.
	* highlights.xml (ov-hi-files): Rip out most of symlink description and
	refer to new pathnames-symlinks section instead.
	* new-features.xml (ov-new1.7.19): Add CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict.
	* pathnames.xml (pathnames-symlinks): New section describing symbolic
	link handling.
2013-05-23 14:26:53 +00:00
Warren Young 8142972d87 Modernized user guide, API reference, and FAQ generation. Overall
effect is to move away from DocBook SGML and DJ Delorie's doctool and
toward pure DocBook XSL.  (There remains just one use of doctool, and
we have plans for replacing it, too.)  See ChangeLog for details.
2013-05-01 23:30:25 +00:00