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authorBruce Yinhe <[email protected]>2014-10-22 16:33:39 +0200
committerBruce Yinhe <[email protected]>2014-10-22 16:33:39 +0200
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Merge branch 'vinoski/crashdump-sigusr1' into maint
* vinoski/crashdump-sigusr1: Clarify the use of SIGUSR1 for forcing crash dumps
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core dump and no crash dump if an internal error is detected.</p>
<p>Calling <c>erlang:halt/1</c> with a string argument will still
- produce a crash dump.</p>
+ produce a crash dump. On Unix systems, sending an emulator process
+ a SIGUSR1 signal will also force a crash dump.</p>
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