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authorSiri Hansen <[email protected]>2013-02-13 19:47:27 +0100
committerSiri Hansen <[email protected]>2013-03-19 14:50:12 +0100
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Convert command string to encoded binary in heart:set_cmd/1
OTP-10843 In order to allow unicode filenames in heart commands, the command string is now encoded according to the file name translation mode of the emulator (file:native_name_encoding()) before it is sent to the heart process.
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/heart.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/heart.xml
index 2856d84dcf..3464832360 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/heart.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/heart.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1996</year><year>2012</year>
+ <year>1996</year><year>2013</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -118,8 +118,13 @@
the system. The new Erlang runtime system will (if it
misbehaves) use the environment variable
<c>HEART_COMMAND</c> to reboot.</p>
- <p>Limitations: The length of the <c><anno>Cmd</anno></c> command string
- must be less than 2047 characters.</p>
+
+ <p>Limitations: The <c><anno>Cmd</anno></c> command string
+ will be sent to the heart program as a ISO-latin-1 or UTF-8
+ encoded binary depending on the file name encoding mode of the
+ emulator (see
+ <seealso marker="kernel:file#native_name_encoding/0"><c>file:native_name_encoding/0</c></seealso>).
+ The size of the encoded binary must be less than 2047 bytes.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>