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+++ b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml
@@ -8,16 +8,17 @@
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
- The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
- Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
- compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
- Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
- retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/.
+ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
- basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
- the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
- under the License.
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
</legalnotice>
@@ -495,24 +496,35 @@
<c><![CDATA[werl]]></c>, not <c><![CDATA[erl]]></c> (<c><![CDATA[oldshell]]></c>). Note also that
<c><![CDATA[Ctrl-Break]]></c> is used instead of <c><![CDATA[Ctrl-C]]></c> on Windows.</p>
</item>
- <tag><marker id="+c"><c><![CDATA[+c]]></c></marker></tag>
- <item>
- <p>Disable compensation for sudden changes of system time.</p>
- <p>Normally, <c><![CDATA[erlang:now/0]]></c> will not immediately reflect
- sudden changes in the system time, in order to keep timers
- (including <c><![CDATA[receive-after]]></c>) working. Instead, the time
- maintained by <c><![CDATA[erlang:now/0]]></c> is slowly adjusted towards
- the new system time. (Slowly means in one percent adjustments;
- if the time is off by one minute, the time will be adjusted
- in 100 minutes.)</p>
- <p>When the <c><![CDATA[+c]]></c> option is given, this slow adjustment
- will not take place. Instead <c><![CDATA[erlang:now/0]]></c> will always
- reflect the current system time. Note that timers are based
- on <c><![CDATA[erlang:now/0]]></c>. If the system time jumps, timers
- then time out at the wrong time.</p>
- <p><em>NOTE</em>: You can check whether the adjustment is enabled or
- disabled by calling
- <seealso marker="erlang#system_info_tolerant_timeofday">erlang:system_info(tolerant_timeofday)</seealso>.</p>
+ <tag><marker id="+c"><c><![CDATA[+c true | false]]></c></marker></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Enable or disable
+ <seealso marker="time_correction#Time_Correction">time correction</seealso>:</p>
+ <taglist>
+ <tag><c>true</c></tag>
+ <item><p>Enable time correction. This is the default if
+ time correction is supported on the specific platform.</p></item>
+
+ <tag><c>false</c></tag>
+ <item><p>Disable time correction.</p></item>
+ </taglist>
+ <p>For backwards compatibility, the boolean value can be omitted.
+ This is interpreted as <c>+c false</c>.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><marker id="+C_"><c><![CDATA[+C no_time_warp | single_time_warp | multi_time_warp]]></c></marker></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Set
+ <seealso marker="time_correction#Time_Warp_Modes">time warp mode</seealso>:
+ </p>
+ <taglist>
+ <tag><c>no_time_warp</c></tag>
+ <item><p><seealso marker="time_correction#No_Time_Warp_Mode">No Time Warp Mode</seealso> (the default)</p></item>
+ <tag><c>single_time_warp</c></tag>
+ <item><p><seealso marker="time_correction#Single_Time_Warp_Mode">Single Time Warp Mode</seealso></p></item>
+ <tag><c>multi_time_warp</c></tag>
+ <item><p><seealso marker="time_correction#Multi_Time_Warp_Mode">Multi Time Warp Mode</seealso></p></item>
+ </taglist>
</item>
<tag><c><![CDATA[+d]]></c></tag>
<item>
@@ -1150,9 +1162,9 @@
<tag><marker id="+secio"><c>+secio true|false</c></marker></tag>
<item>
<p>Enable or disable eager check I/O scheduling. The default
- is currently <c>false</c>, but will most likely be changed
- to <c>true</c> in OTP 18. The behaviour before this flag
- was introduced corresponds to <c>+secio false</c>.</p>
+ is currently <c>true</c>. The default was changed from <c>false</c>
+ to <c>true</c> as of erts version 7.0. The behaviour before this
+ flag was introduced corresponds to <c>+secio false</c>.</p>
<p>The flag effects when schedulers will check for I/O
operations possible to execute, and when such I/O operations
will execute. As the name of the parameter implies,
@@ -1311,13 +1323,14 @@
<item>
<p>Verbose.</p>
</item>
- <tag><c><![CDATA[+W w | i]]></c></tag>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[+W w | i | e]]></c></tag>
<item>
<p>Sets the mapping of warning messages for <c><![CDATA[error_logger]]></c>.
Messages sent to the error logger using one of the warning
- routines can be mapped either to errors (default), warnings
- (<c><![CDATA[+W w]]></c>), or info reports (<c><![CDATA[+W i]]></c>). The current
- mapping can be retrieved using
+ routines can be mapped either to errors (<c><![CDATA[+W e]]></c>),
+ warnings (<c><![CDATA[+W w]]></c>), or info reports
+ (<c><![CDATA[+W i]]></c>). The default is warnings.
+ The current mapping can be retrieved using
<c><![CDATA[error_logger:warning_map/0]]></c>. See
<seealso marker="kernel:error_logger#warning_map/0">error_logger(3)</seealso>
for further information.</p>
@@ -1339,6 +1352,18 @@
give lower latency and higher throughput at the expense
of higher memory usage.</p>
</item>
+ <tag><marker id="+zdntgc"><c>+zdntgc time</c></marker></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Set the delayed node table garbage collection time
+ (<seealso marker="erlang#system_info_delayed_node_table_gc">delayed_node_table_gc</seealso>)
+ in seconds. Valid values are either <c>infinity</c> or
+ an integer in the range [0-100000000]. Default is 60.</p>
+ <p>Node table entries that are not referred will linger
+ in the table for at least the amount of time that this
+ parameter determines. The lingering prevents repeated
+ deletions and insertions in the tables from occurring.
+ </p>
+ </item>
</taglist>
</item>
</taglist>