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| author | Sverker Eriksson <[email protected]> | 2016-01-20 19:44:41 +0100 |
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| committer | Sverker Eriksson <[email protected]> | 2016-01-20 19:44:41 +0100 |
| commit | a45ea56a090326445d4618d8e9e26b77bf984ec8 (patch) | |
| tree | 9e2ba935e6a58608a7c433d5dd327b3c810634bd | |
| parent | 8aee2c6f41f7fa7bd4efabd4faf9acca61d12744 (diff) | |
| parent | 53dcd92be965d35ef53a27efda0597b2961921ba (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'sverk/safe-purging/OTP-13122'
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diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml index 0aea73cd87..c3e2ed61e9 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml @@ -4870,6 +4870,12 @@ os_prompt% </pre> <seealso marker="kernel:code">code(3)</seealso>) and is not to be used elsewhere.</p> </warning> + <note> + <p>As from <c>ERTS</c> 8.0 (OTP 19), any lingering processes + that still execute the old code will be killed by this function. + In earlier versions, such incorrect use could cause much + more fatal failures, like emulator crash.</p> + </note> <p>Failure: <c>badarg</c> if there is no old code for <c><anno>Module</anno></c>.</p> </desc> |