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diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index aa0f1800b..5aa0d2f2b 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2008-07-18 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> + + * cygwinenv.sgml: Move binmode option to list of removed options. + 2008-07-17 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> * Revamp documentation for Cygwin 1.7, part 1. diff --git a/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml b/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml index d3977d23d..8390e3e1d 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml @@ -10,21 +10,6 @@ listed below, separated by blank characters. Many options can be turned off by prefixing with <literal>no</literal>.</para> <itemizedlist mark="bullet"> -<listitem> -<para><envar>(no)binmode</envar> - if set, non-disk -(e.g. pipe and COM ports) file opens default to binary mode -(no CRLF translation) instead of text mode. Defaults to set (binary -mode). By default, devices are opened in binary mode, so this option -has little effect on normal cygwin operations. Sockets are always -in binary mode. - -It does affect two things, however. For non-NTFS filesystems, this -option will control the line endings for standard output/input/error -for redirection from the Windows command shell. It will also affect -the default translation mode of a pipe, although most shells set the -pipe to binary by default. -</para> -</listitem> <listitem> <para><envar>codepage:[ansi|oem|utf8]</envar> - This option controls @@ -156,6 +141,7 @@ set. If not set, Cygwin creates symlinks as plain files with a magic number, a path and the system attribute set. Defaults to not set since plain file symlinks are faster to write and faster to read.</para> </listitem> + </itemizedlist> </sect2> @@ -168,6 +154,14 @@ Some CYGWIN options have been removed in Cygwin 1.7 for one reason or another. These removed options are listed below.</para> <itemizedlist mark="bullet"> + +<listitem> +<para><envar>(no)binmode</envar> - This option has been removed because +all file opens default to binary mode, unless the open mode has been specified +explicitely in the open(2) call. +</para> +</listitem> + <listitem> <para><envar>check_case</envar> - This option has been removed in favor of real case sensitivity and the per-mount option "posix=[0|1]". For more @@ -205,6 +199,7 @@ Cygwin.</para> traverse checking is not quite correctly implemented by Microsoft and it's behaviour is getting worse with each new OS version.</para> </listitem> + </itemizedlist> </sect2> |