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| author | Siri Hansen <[email protected]> | 2011-11-14 15:39:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Siri Hansen <[email protected]> | 2011-11-16 12:15:30 +0100 |
| commit | 978ccb1fc2de4abc2d0d6b89e664ea6d8da1c663 (patch) | |
| tree | 92510e2ba07f4b52935a632c366328107e677d2d /system | |
| parent | c87b8781f82eb3b8b4c2e9651070391d82e6c0ec (diff) | |
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Improve documentation on supervisor restart strategy
Diffstat (limited to 'system')
| -rw-r--r-- | system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml b/system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml index a432f9458b..5b8fd604c8 100644 --- a/system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml +++ b/system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml @@ -160,10 +160,13 @@ init(...) -> be restarted.</p> <list type="bulleted"> <item>A <c>permanent</c> child process is always restarted.</item> - <item>A <c>temporary</c> child process is never restarted.</item> + <item>A <c>temporary</c> child process is never restarted + (not even when the supervisor's restart strategy + is <c>rest_for_one</c> or <c>one_for_all</c> and a sibling's + death causes the temporary process to be terminated).</item> <item>A <c>transient</c> child process is restarted only if it terminates abnormally, i.e. with another exit reason than - <c>normal</c>.</item> + <c>normal</c>, <c>shutdown</c> or <c>{shutdown,Term}</c>.</item> </list> </item> <item> |