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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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diff --git a/system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml b/system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml
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+++ b/system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml
@@ -163,7 +163,9 @@ SupFlags = #{strategy => Strategy, ...}</code>
SupFlags = #{intensity => MaxR, period => MaxT, ...}</code>
<p>If more than <c>MaxR</c> number of restarts occur in the last
<c>MaxT</c> seconds, the supervisor terminates all the child
- processes and then itself.</p>
+ processes and then itself.
+ The termination reason for the supervisor itself in that case will be
+ <c>shutdown</c>.</p>
<p>When the supervisor terminates, then the next higher-level
supervisor takes some action. It either restarts the terminated
supervisor or terminates itself.</p>