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authorTomas Pihl <[email protected]>2012-07-22 13:01:43 +0200
committerHenrik Nord <[email protected]>2012-10-05 11:25:06 +0200
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Have supervisor send errors up the chain
If a child fails to start, supervisor relies upon error_logger which does not work when IO is inhibited. Instead pass the error up the chain and let someone else use a proper Reason for any possible printouts.
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diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
index f9a5e245b4..1a64b7a2af 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ child_spec() = {Id,StartFunc,Restart,Shutdown,Type,Modules}
terminates with reason <c>Term</c>.</p>
<p>If any child process start function fails or returns an error
tuple or an erroneous value, the function returns
- <c>{error,shutdown}</c> and the supervisor terminates all
+ <c>{error, {shutdown, Reason}}</c> and the supervisor terminates all
started child processes and then itself with reason
<c>shutdown</c>.</p>
</desc>