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authorBrujo Benavides <[email protected]>2016-11-03 12:59:27 -0300
committerBrujo Benavides <[email protected]>2016-11-15 09:28:39 -0300
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Expand on the behavior of supervisors
Add additional details on the behavior of supervisors when reaching maximum restart intensity, as stated by @rvirding at [Medium](https://goo.gl/XhwpSL)
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-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
index 294196f746..bb06d3645e 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
@@ -133,8 +133,10 @@ sup_flags() = #{strategy => strategy(), % optional
map. Assuming the values <c>MaxR</c> for <c>intensity</c>
and <c>MaxT</c> for <c>period</c>, then, if more than <c>MaxR</c>
restarts occur within <c>MaxT</c> seconds, the supervisor
- terminates all child processes and then itself. <c>intensity</c>
- defaults to <c>1</c> and <c>period</c> defaults to <c>5</c>.</p>
+ terminates all child processes and then itself. The termination
+ reason for the supervisor itself in that case will be <c>shutdown</c>.
+ <c>intensity</c> defaults to <c>1</c> and <c>period</c> defaults to
+ <c>5</c>.</p>
<marker id="child_spec"/>
<p>The type definition of a child specification is as follows:</p>