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| author | Björn Gustavsson <[email protected]> | 2019-02-22 13:34:25 +0100 |
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| committer | Björn Gustavsson <[email protected]> | 2019-02-22 13:34:25 +0100 |
| commit | 4cb28a71019ac8208bd642144c5a525700d8fb0e (patch) | |
| tree | 26680de746d9cc90426b9016e64ab80584d3817a /lib/stdlib/doc | |
| parent | d49b77d0c250e0dfd183ec0f62664f4f60c2ffec (diff) | |
| parent | bc4f7cc80adf166f0f53b712fbe5101f675f84d0 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
Clarify the atomic guarantees for ets:update_counter()
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/stdlib/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/ets.xml | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/ets.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/ets.xml index ff088de8ab..d2ac6a75b1 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/ets.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/ets.xml @@ -2038,9 +2038,8 @@ true</pre> <p>This function provides an efficient way to update one or more counters, without the trouble of having to look up an object, update the object by incrementing an element, and insert the resulting - object into the table again. (The update is done atomically, - that is, no process - can access the ETS table in the middle of the operation.)</p> + object into the table again. The operation is guaranteed to be + <seealso marker="#concurrency">atomic and isolated</seealso>.</p> <p>This function destructively update the object with key <c><anno>Key</anno></c> in table <c><anno>Tab</anno></c> by adding <c><anno>Incr</anno></c> to the element at position |