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authorHans Bolinder <[email protected]>2018-03-06 10:11:24 +0100
committerHans Bolinder <[email protected]>2018-03-06 10:11:24 +0100
commit2af61b05c1232a21be567bd0950adba94693589e (patch)
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/hasse/kernel/rpc_doc_fix/OTP-10551'
* origin/hasse/kernel/rpc_doc_fix/OTP-10551: kernel: Improve docs of rpc:multicall/5
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kernel')
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/rpc.xml11
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/src/rpc.erl10
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/rpc.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/rpc.xml
index adec2d9520..fab616e630 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/rpc.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/rpc.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1996</year><year>2016</year>
+ <year>1996</year><year>2018</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
<list type="bulleted">
<item>A list of the nodes that do not exist</item>
<item>A list of the nodes where the server does not exist</item>
- <item>A list of the nodes where the server terminatd before sending
+ <item>A list of the nodes where the server terminated before sending
any reply.</item>
</list>
</desc>
@@ -268,8 +268,9 @@
on the specified nodes and collects the answers. It returns
<c>{<anno>ResL</anno>, <anno>BadNodes</anno>}</c>, where
<c><anno>BadNodes</anno></c> is a list
- of the nodes that terminated or timed out during computation,
- and <c><anno>ResL</anno></c> is a list of the return values.
+ of the nodes that do not exist,
+ and <c><anno>ResL</anno></c> is a list of the return values,
+ or <c>{badrpc, <anno>Reason</anno>}</c> for failing calls.
<c><anno>Timeout</anno></c> is a time (integer) in milliseconds, or
<c>infinity</c>.</p>
<p>The following example is useful when new object code is to
@@ -347,7 +348,7 @@
<func>
<name name="pmap" arity="3"/>
- <fsummary>Parallell evaluation of mapping a function over a
+ <fsummary>Parallel evaluation of mapping a function over a
list.</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Evaluates <c>apply(<anno>Module</anno>, <anno>Function</anno>,
diff --git a/lib/kernel/src/rpc.erl b/lib/kernel/src/rpc.erl
index 0e0b7dffa3..b04aa9030b 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/src/rpc.erl
+++ b/lib/kernel/src/rpc.erl
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
%%
%% %CopyrightBegin%
%%
-%% Copyright Ericsson AB 1996-2017. All Rights Reserved.
+%% Copyright Ericsson AB 1996-2018. All Rights Reserved.
%%
%% Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
%% you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ start_monitor(Node, Name) ->
Module :: module(),
Function :: atom(),
Args :: [term()],
- ResL :: [term()],
+ ResL :: [Res :: term() | {'badrpc', Reason :: term()}],
BadNodes :: [node()].
multicall(M, F, A) ->
@@ -509,14 +509,14 @@ multicall(M, F, A) ->
Module :: module(),
Function :: atom(),
Args :: [term()],
- ResL :: [term()],
+ ResL :: [Res :: term() | {'badrpc', Reason :: term()}],
BadNodes :: [node()];
(Module, Function, Args, Timeout) -> {ResL, BadNodes} when
Module :: module(),
Function :: atom(),
Args :: [term()],
Timeout :: timeout(),
- ResL :: [term()],
+ ResL :: [Res :: term() | {'badrpc', Reason :: term()}],
BadNodes :: [node()].
multicall(Nodes, M, F, A) when is_list(Nodes) ->
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ multicall(M, F, A, Timeout) ->
Function :: atom(),
Args :: [term()],
Timeout :: timeout(),
- ResL :: [term()],
+ ResL :: [Res :: term() | {'badrpc', Reason :: term()}],
BadNodes :: [node()].
multicall(Nodes, M, F, A, infinity)