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| author | Siri Hansen <[email protected]> | 2014-05-07 11:17:24 +0200 |
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| committer | Siri Hansen <[email protected]> | 2014-05-26 11:53:25 +0200 |
| commit | 6c3d24ccbc597e6d31db1f559470cc59585fdf52 (patch) | |
| tree | 8509ed16e8f241b63dc0a5c9d202eb72d325bf4f /lib/stdlib/doc/src/sys.xml | |
| parent | aa0caafe360cce6afd91739a019ec1f8b3478424 (diff) | |
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Add system message 'terminate'
This is to be used when implementing synchronous stop of generic
behaviours and other 'sys special processes'.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/stdlib/doc/src/sys.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/sys.xml | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/sys.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/sys.xml index a46fa1289f..7fb82e0e7e 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/sys.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/sys.xml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <erlref> <header> <copyright> - <year>1996</year><year>2013</year> + <year>1996</year><year>2014</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -356,6 +356,17 @@ installed.</p> </desc> </func> + <func> + <name name="terminate" arity="2"/> + <name name="terminate" arity="3"/> + <fsummary>Terminate the process</fsummary> + <desc> + <p>This function orders the process to terminate with the + given <c><anno>Reason</anno></c>. The termination is done + asynchronously, so there is no guarantee that the process is + actually terminated when the function returns.</p> + </desc> + </func> </funcs> <section> |