kernel: Improve docs of rpc:multicall/5

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/rpc.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/rpc.xml
index adec2d9520..fab616e630 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/rpc.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/rpc.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 <erlref>
   <header>
     <copyright>
-      <year>1996</year><year>2016</year>
+      <year>1996</year><year>2018</year>
       <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
     </copyright>
     <legalnotice>
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
         <list type="bulleted">
           <item>A list of the nodes that do not exist</item>
           <item>A list of the nodes where the server does not exist</item>
-          <item>A list of the nodes where the server terminatd before sending
+          <item>A list of the nodes where the server terminated before sending
           any reply.</item>
         </list>
       </desc>
@@ -268,8 +268,9 @@
           on the specified nodes and collects the answers. It returns
           <c>{<anno>ResL</anno>, <anno>BadNodes</anno>}</c>, where
           <c><anno>BadNodes</anno></c> is a list
-          of the nodes that terminated or timed out during computation,
-          and <c><anno>ResL</anno></c> is a list of the return values.
+          of the nodes that do not exist,
+          and <c><anno>ResL</anno></c> is a list of the return values,
+	  or <c>{badrpc, <anno>Reason</anno>}</c> for failing calls.
           <c><anno>Timeout</anno></c> is a time (integer) in milliseconds, or
           <c>infinity</c>.</p>
         <p>The following example is useful when new object code is to
@@ -347,7 +348,7 @@
 
     <func>
       <name name="pmap" arity="3"/>
-      <fsummary>Parallell evaluation of mapping a function over a
+      <fsummary>Parallel evaluation of mapping a function over a
         list.</fsummary>
       <desc>
         <p>Evaluates <c>apply(<anno>Module</anno>, <anno>Function</anno>,
diff --git a/lib/kernel/src/rpc.erl b/lib/kernel/src/rpc.erl
index 0e0b7dffa3..b04aa9030b 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/src/rpc.erl
+++ b/lib/kernel/src/rpc.erl
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 %%
 %% %CopyrightBegin%
 %%
-%% Copyright Ericsson AB 1996-2017. All Rights Reserved.
+%% Copyright Ericsson AB 1996-2018. All Rights Reserved.
 %%
 %% Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 %% you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ start_monitor(Node, Name) ->
       Module :: module(),
       Function :: atom(),
       Args :: [term()],
-      ResL :: [term()],
+      ResL :: [Res :: term() | {'badrpc', Reason :: term()}],
       BadNodes :: [node()].
 
 multicall(M, F, A) -> 
@@ -509,14 +509,14 @@ multicall(M, F, A) ->
                   Module :: module(),
                   Function :: atom(),
                   Args :: [term()],
-                  ResL :: [term()],
+                  ResL :: [Res :: term() | {'badrpc', Reason :: term()}],
                   BadNodes :: [node()];
                (Module, Function, Args, Timeout) -> {ResL, BadNodes} when
                   Module :: module(),
                   Function :: atom(),
                   Args :: [term()],
                   Timeout :: timeout(),
-                  ResL :: [term()],
+                  ResL :: [Res :: term() | {'badrpc', Reason :: term()}],
                   BadNodes :: [node()].
 
 multicall(Nodes, M, F, A) when is_list(Nodes) ->
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ multicall(M, F, A, Timeout) ->
       Function :: atom(),
       Args :: [term()],
       Timeout :: timeout(),
-      ResL :: [term()],
+      ResL :: [Res :: term() | {'badrpc', Reason :: term()}],
       BadNodes :: [node()].
 
 multicall(Nodes, M, F, A, infinity)