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authorLukas Larsson <[email protected]>2016-07-01 17:32:51 +0200
committerLukas Larsson <[email protected]>2016-07-13 14:54:56 +0200
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@@ -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>