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| author | Sverker Eriksson <[email protected]> | 2016-09-21 17:46:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Sverker Eriksson <[email protected]> | 2016-09-21 17:46:11 +0200 |
| commit | 6c7160b1105f7f258898e7ba406289bef33fd756 (patch) | |
| tree | b59642f41504eedf98942e7edd231808a578564b | |
| parent | e6059f94571a6c968c15b9de6b7d63ebd64f9acf (diff) | |
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erts: Clearify run_erl docs
ERL-258
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/run_erl.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/run_erl.xml b/erts/doc/src/run_erl.xml index ad7b2c5b85..a9b6a7e2c6 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/run_erl.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/run_erl.xml @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ <funcs> <func> <name>run_erl [-daemon] pipe_dir/ log_dir "exec command - [command_arguments]"</name> + arg1 arg2 ..."</name> <fsummary>Start the Erlang emulator without attached terminal.</fsummary> <desc> <p>Arguments:</p> @@ -92,11 +92,10 @@ </item> </list> </item> - <tag><c>"exec command [command_arguments]"</c></tag> + <tag><c>"exec command arg1 arg2 ..."</c></tag> <item> - <p>In the third argument, <c><![CDATA[command]]></c> is the - executable to execute where everything written to <c>stdin</c> - and <c>stdout</c> is logged to <c><![CDATA[log_dir]]></c>.</p> + <p>A space-separated string specifying the program to be executed. + The second field is typically a command name such as <c>erl</c>.</p> </item> </taglist> </desc> @@ -105,7 +104,7 @@ <section> <title>Notes concerning the Log Files</title> - <p>While running, <c>run_erl</c> (as stated earlier) sends all output, + <p>While running, <c>run_erl</c> sends all output, uninterpreted, to a log file. The file is named <c><![CDATA[erlang.log.N]]></c>, where <c>N</c> is an integer. When the log is "full" (default log size is 100 KB), <c>run_erl</c> starts to log |