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authorSiri Hansen <[email protected]>2016-09-29 10:51:58 +0200
committerSiri Hansen <[email protected]>2016-09-29 10:51:58 +0200
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Merge branch 'siri/doc-add_pathsa-order/ERL-267/OTP-13920' into maint
* siri/doc-add_pathsa-order/ERL-267/OTP-13920: Document the order of directories added with code:add_pathsa/1
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/code.xml11
-rw-r--r--lib/sasl/doc/src/script.xml2
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/code.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/code.xml
index 4db377bcde..3143cdc825 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/code.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/code.xml
@@ -382,9 +382,14 @@ zip:create("mnesia-4.4.7.ez",
<name name="add_pathsa" arity="1"/>
<fsummary>Add directories to the beginning of the code path.</fsummary>
<desc>
- <p>Adds the directories in <c><anno>Dirs</anno></c> to the beginning of
- the code path. If a <c><anno>Dir</anno></c> exists, it is removed
- from the old position in the code path.</p>
+ <p>Traverses <c><anno>Dirs</anno></c> and adds
+ each <c><anno>Dir</anno></c> to the beginning of the code
+ path. This means that the order of <c><anno>Dirs</anno></c>
+ is reversed in the resulting code path. For example, if you
+ add <c>[Dir1,Dir2]</c>, the resulting path will
+ be <c>[Dir2,Dir1|OldCodePath]</c>.</p>
+ <p>If a <c><anno>Dir</anno></c> already exists in the code
+ path, it is removed from the old position.</p>
<p>Always returns <c>ok</c>, regardless of the validity of each
individual <c><anno>Dir</anno></c>.</p>
</desc>
diff --git a/lib/sasl/doc/src/script.xml b/lib/sasl/doc/src/script.xml
index 8ed132354d..b40ff28179 100644
--- a/lib/sasl/doc/src/script.xml
+++ b/lib/sasl/doc/src/script.xml
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
follows:</p>
<list type="bulleted">
<item><c>-pa Dir1 Dir2 ... DirN</c> adds the directories
- <c>Dir1, Dir2, ..., DirN</c> to the front of the initial
+ <c>DirN, DirN-1, ..., Dir2, Dir1</c> to the front of the initial
load path.</item>
<item><c>-pz Dir1 Dir2 ... DirN</c> adds the directories
<c>Dir1, Dir2, ..., DirN</c> to the end of the initial