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authorJohn Högberg <[email protected]>2019-08-16 09:38:50 +0200
committerGitHub <[email protected]>2019-08-16 09:38:50 +0200
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Merge pull request #2343 from josevalim/patch-13
Document file:open/2 monitors the owner process
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diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
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@@ -957,10 +957,9 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}.
</item>
</taglist>
<p><c><anno>IoDevice</anno></c> is really the pid of the process that
- handles the file. This process is linked to the process
- that originally opened the file. If any process to which
- the <c><anno>IoDevice</anno></c> is linked terminates, the file is
- closed and the process itself is terminated.
+ handles the file. This process monitors the process that originally
+ opened the file (the owner process). If the owner process terminates,
+ the file is closed and the process itself terminates too.
An <c><anno>IoDevice</anno></c> returned from this call can be used
as an argument to the I/O functions (see
<seealso marker="stdlib:io"><c>io(3)</c></seealso>).</p>