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authorSverker Eriksson <[email protected]>2016-01-20 19:44:41 +0100
committerSverker Eriksson <[email protected]>2016-01-20 19:44:41 +0100
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Merge branch 'sverk/safe-purging/OTP-13122'
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@@ -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>