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diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml index f39b640c7e..00f7766368 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml @@ -1586,6 +1586,25 @@ </section> <section> + <marker id="signals"></marker> + <title>Signals</title> + <p>On Unix systems, the Erlang runtime will interpret two types of signals.</p> + <taglist> + <tag><c>SIGUSR1</c></tag> + <item> + <p>A <c>SIGUSR1</c> signal forces a crash dump.</p> + </item> + <tag><c>SIGTERM</c></tag> + <item> + <p>A <c>SIGTERM</c> will produce a <c>stop</c> message to the <c>init</c> process. + This is equivalent to a <c>init:stop/0</c> call.</p> + <p>Introduced in ERTS 8.3 (Erlang/OTP 19.3)</p> + </item> + </taglist> + <p>The signal <c>SIGUSR2</c> is reserved for internal usage. No other signals are handled.</p> + </section> + + <section> <marker id="configuration"></marker> <title>Configuration</title> <p>The standard Erlang/OTP system can be reconfigured to change the default |