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99 > -- Provide a short string describing this option.</DIV
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113 >cdl_option <name> {
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129 >Users can only be expected to manipulate configuration options
130 sensibly if they are given sufficient information about these options.
131 There are three properties which serve to explain an option in plain
135 > property gives a textual alias for an option,
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148 property specifies the location of additional on-line documentation
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176 >cdl_option CYGNUM_KERNEL_SYNCH_MBOX_QUEUE_SIZE {
177 display "Message box queue size"
179 legal_values 1 to 65535
182 This configuration option controls the number of messages
183 that can be queued in a message box before a non-blocking
184 put() operation will fail or a blocking put() operation will
185 block. The cost in memory is one pointer per message box for
186 each possible message."
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