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| author | Simon Cornish <[email protected]> | 2016-04-25 22:21:07 -0700 |
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| committer | Simon Cornish <[email protected]> | 2016-06-01 14:56:24 +0200 |
| commit | 45a4a46333b1e8e6f66ba923deaf947a67ae7737 (patch) | |
| tree | feacad1dc2e8ca4e675aba503eafd20831491ce8 /lib/kernel/doc | |
| parent | 523e048754f5086a6cc4fd9a250e1b495fc5b9b8 (diff) | |
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Don't kill old erlang if HEART_NO_KILL is set
If the environment variable HEART_NO_KILL is set then
heart won't kill the old erlang process. This is desirable
if the command executed by heart takes care of this.
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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/kernel/doc/src/heart.xml | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/heart.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/heart.xml index 9da4773f2d..bfb4ce45e6 100644 --- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/heart.xml +++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/heart.xml @@ -89,6 +89,16 @@ <pre> % <input>erl -heart -env HEART_KILL_SIGNAL SIGABRT ...</input></pre> + <p> If heart should <b>not</b> kill the Erlang runtime system, this can be indicated + using the environment variable <c><![CDATA[HEART_NO_KILL]]></c>. + This can be useful if the command executed by heart takes care of this, + for example as part of a specific cleanup sequence. + If unset, the default behaviour will be to kill as described above. + </p> + + <pre> +% <input>erl -heart -env HEART_NO_KILL 1 ...</input></pre> + <p> Furthermore, <c><![CDATA[ERL_CRASH_DUMP_SECONDS]]></c> has the following behaviour on <c>heart</c>: |