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author | Lukas Larsson <[email protected]> | 2016-07-01 17:32:51 +0200 |
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committer | Lukas Larsson <[email protected]> | 2016-07-13 14:54:56 +0200 |
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erts: Review of documentation changes
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diff --git a/erts/doc/src/alt_dist.xml b/erts/doc/src/alt_dist.xml index 67d30a03c2..f3e3260230 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/alt_dist.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/alt_dist.xml @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ <rev>PA2</rev> <file>alt_dist.xml</file> </header> - <p>This section describes how to implement an own carrier + <p>This section describes how to implement an alternative carrier protocol for the Erlang distribution. The distribution is normally carried by TCP/IP. Here is explained a method for replacing TCP/IP with another protocol.</p> @@ -169,11 +169,10 @@ necessity.</p> <p>The driver data types and the functions available to the driver - writer are defined in header file <c><![CDATA[erl_driver.h]]></c> (there - is also a deprecated version called <c><![CDATA[driver.h]]></c>, do not - use that one) seated in Erlang's include directory (and in - <c>$ERL_TOP/erts/emulator/beam</c> in the source code - distribution). See that file for function prototypes, and so on.</p> + writer are defined in header file <c><![CDATA[erl_driver.h]]></c> + seated in Erlang's include directory. See the + <seealso marker="erts:erl_driver">erl_driver</seealso> documentation + for details of which functions are available.</p> <p>When writing a driver to make a communications protocol available to Erlang, one should know just about everything worth knowing @@ -440,9 +439,8 @@ <tag><c>uds_finish</c></tag> <item> <p>Called when the driver is unloaded. A distribution driver will - actually (or hopefully) never be unloaded, but we include this for - completeness. To be able to clean up after oneself is always a good - thing.</p> + never be unloaded, but we include this for completeness. To be + able to clean up after oneself is always a good thing.</p> </item> <tag><c>uds_control</c></tag> <item> @@ -465,9 +463,9 @@ <p>While <c><![CDATA[net_kernel]]></c> informs different subsystems that the connection is coming up, the port is to accept data to send. - However, the port receives no data, to avoid that data arrives from - another node before every kernel subsystem is prepared to handle it. - A third mode, named <c>intermediate</c>, is used for this + However, the port should not receive any data, to avoid that data + arrives from another node before every kernel subsystem is prepared + to handle it. A third mode, named <c>intermediate</c>, is used for this intermediate stage.</p> <p>An enum is defined for the different types of ports:</p> |