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| author | Siri Hansen <[email protected]> | 2018-06-15 09:58:51 +0200 |
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| committer | GitHub <[email protected]> | 2018-06-15 09:58:51 +0200 |
| commit | a939b26c1a62e0d1c0a35f084b69765d9b64dfa4 (patch) | |
| tree | 3263af5cf651f751e3fd198f73123d22b52a8cee /lib/kernel/doc/src | |
| parent | 115b0fa6d1374de08789a9431dc34c633663f598 (diff) | |
| parent | afee0fcc6a23da8ac31310606004fa42b6cf65a9 (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #1838 from crownedgrouse/master
Included config files relative to sys.config directory
OTP-15137
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kernel/doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/kernel/doc/src/config.xml | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/config.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/config.xml index 8850c1736b..3f01170508 100644 --- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/config.xml +++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/config.xml @@ -86,8 +86,13 @@ <tag><c>File = string()</c></tag> <item>Name of another <c>.config</c> file. Extension <c>.config</c> can be omitted. It is - recommended to use absolute paths. A relative path is - relative the current working directory of the emulator.</item> + recommended to use absolute paths. If a relative path is used, + <c>File</c> is searched, first, relative from <c>sys.config</c> directory, then relative + to the current working directory of the emulator, for backward compatibility. + This allow to use a <c>sys.config</c> pointing out other <c>.config</c> files in a release + or in a node started manually using <c>-config ...</c> with same result whatever + the current working directory. + </item> </taglist> <p>When traversing the contents of <c>sys.config</c> and a filename is encountered, its contents are read and merged with the result |