* 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.
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2013-07-15 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* 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 <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>
* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.21): New section. Document rawmemchr.

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<sect1 id="ov-new1.7"><title>What's new and what changed in Cygwin 1.7</title>
<sect2 id="ov-new1.7.22"><title>What's new and what changed from 1.7.21 to 1.7.22</title>
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
<listitem><para>
Support for /dev/mem, /dev/kmem and /dev/port removed, since OS support
was limited to 32 bit Windows XP only.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="ov-new1.7.21"><title>What's new and what changed from 1.7.20 to 1.7.21</title>
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">

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/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.