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authorHans Bolinder <[email protected]>2014-03-04 15:06:53 +0100
committerHans Bolinder <[email protected]>2014-03-05 09:00:07 +0100
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stdlib: Improve the doc of the supervisor's via reference
Most of the updates have already been made in 'Fix alternative registry type annotations in supervisor', a5412706f4185fddbac29216a49affd1e9f11da0. Thanks to MaximMinin.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/stdlib')
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml6
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/src/gen.erl6
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
index 8197684d2d..3a5027d595 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.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>
@@ -262,12 +262,12 @@ child_spec() = {Id,StartFunc,Restart,Shutdown,Type,Modules}
locally as <c>Name</c> using <c>register/2</c>. If
<c><anno>SupName</anno>={global,Name}</c> the supervisor is registered
globally as <c>Name</c> using <c>global:register_name/2</c>. If
- <c><anno>SupName</anno>={via,Module,Name}</c> the supervisor
+ <c><anno>SupName</anno>={via,<anno>Module</anno>,<anno>Name</anno>}</c> the supervisor
is registered as <c>Name</c> using the registry represented by
<c>Module</c>. The <c>Module</c> callback should export the functions
<c>register_name/2</c>, <c>unregister_name/1</c> and <c>send/2</c>,
which should behave like the corresponding functions in <c>global</c>.
- Thus, <c>{via,global,Name}</c> is a valid reference.</p>
+ Thus, <c>{via,global,<anno>Name</anno>}</c> is a valid reference.</p>
<p>If no name is provided, the supervisor is not registered.</p>
<p><c><anno>Module</anno></c> is the name of the callback module.</p>
<p><c><anno>Args</anno></c> is an arbitrary term which is passed as
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/src/gen.erl b/lib/stdlib/src/gen.erl
index 7281549ea7..63116fa16e 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/src/gen.erl
+++ b/lib/stdlib/src/gen.erl
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
%%
%% %CopyrightBegin%
%%
-%% Copyright Ericsson AB 1996-2013. All Rights Reserved.
+%% Copyright Ericsson AB 1996-2014. All Rights Reserved.
%%
%% The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
%% Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
@@ -37,7 +37,9 @@
%%-----------------------------------------------------------------
-type linkage() :: 'link' | 'nolink'.
--type emgr_name() :: {'local', atom()} | {'global', term()} | {via, atom(), term()}.
+-type emgr_name() :: {'local', atom()}
+ | {'global', term()}
+ | {'via', Module :: module(), Name :: term()}.
-type start_ret() :: {'ok', pid()} | 'ignore' | {'error', term()}.