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| author | Christopher Faulet <[email protected]> | 2011-09-06 11:10:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Henrik Nord <[email protected]> | 2011-10-10 17:36:40 +0200 |
| commit | 2c4e984bd1d75524fd6444dc2032f8d758a945ae (patch) | |
| tree | 7249ef287033d773d163f8a9f18a09195395551c /lib/stdlib/doc | |
| parent | eb9656c94f4e92c2a4875dc628cb41d283dd4d2b (diff) | |
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Allow an infinite timeout to shutdown worker processes
Now, in child specification, the shutdown value can also be set to infinity
for worker children. This restriction was removed because this is not always
possible to predict the shutdown time for a worker. This is highly
application-dependent.
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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml index ec607d6e4c..b4baf2f0a0 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml @@ -169,7 +169,8 @@ child_spec() = {Id,StartFunc,Restart,Shutdown,Type,Modules} <c>exit(Child,kill)</c>.</p> <p>If the child process is another supervisor, <c>Shutdown</c> should be set to <c>infinity</c> to give the subtree ample - time to shutdown.</p> + time to shutdown. It is also allowed to set it to <c>infinity</c>, + if the child process is a worker.</p> <p><em>Important note on simple-one-for-one supervisors:</em> The dynamically created child processes of a simple-one-for-one supervisor are not explicitly killed, |