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| author | Sverker Eriksson <[email protected]> | 2017-08-23 13:33:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Sverker Eriksson <[email protected]> | 2017-08-23 13:33:29 +0200 |
| commit | 8453bda5805bc8a2d4709b5d15643fb0512a8a23 (patch) | |
| tree | bd8306dbfac6eca83ea2eac81ef399953b085e34 /erts/doc | |
| parent | 9513aed6c04c34f06bd594b771ee9471a5264ac0 (diff) | |
| parent | 26416b5430795f3a27913931afbb7ef1dc51d4bd (diff) | |
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diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml index ba4e07b158..5664609f60 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml @@ -1943,23 +1943,26 @@ os_prompt%</pre> <item>The runtime system exits with integer value <c><anno>Status</anno></c> as status code to the calling environment (OS). + <note> + <p>On many platforms, the OS supports only status + codes 0-255. A too large status code is truncated by clearing + the high bits.</p> + </note> </item> <tag>string()</tag> <item>An Erlang crash dump is produced with <c><anno>Status</anno></c> as slogan. Then the runtime system exits with status code <c>1</c>. - Note that only code points in the range 0-255 may be used - and the string will be truncated if longer than 200 characters. + The string will be truncated if longer than 200 characters. + <note> + <p>Before ERTS 9.1 (OTP-20.1) only code points in the range 0-255 + was accepted in the string. Now any unicode string is valid.</p> + </note> </item> <tag><c>abort</c></tag> <item>The runtime system aborts producing a core dump, if that is enabled in the OS. </item> </taglist> - <note> - <p>On many platforms, the OS supports only status - codes 0-255. A too large status code is truncated by clearing - the high bits.</p> - </note> <p>For integer <c><anno>Status</anno></c>, the Erlang runtime system closes all ports and allows async threads to finish their operations before exiting. To exit without such flushing, use |