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diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml index f08467bfc6..e8621fecc3 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml @@ -4,20 +4,21 @@ <comref> <header> <copyright> - <year>1996</year><year>2013</year> + <year>1996</year><year>2015</year> <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> @@ -137,7 +138,7 @@ see <seealso marker="kernel:app">app(4)</seealso> and <seealso marker="kernel:application">application(3)</seealso>.</p> </item> - <tag><marker id="args_file"><c><![CDATA[-args_file FileName]]></c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="args_file"/><c><![CDATA[-args_file FileName]]></c></tag> <item> <p>Command line arguments are read from the file <c><![CDATA[FileName]]></c>. The arguments read from the file replace the @@ -202,7 +203,7 @@ <seealso marker="kernel:app">app(4)</seealso> and <seealso marker="kernel:application">application(3)</seealso>.</p> </item> - <tag><marker id="connect_all"><c><![CDATA[-connect_all false]]></c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="connect_all"/><c><![CDATA[-connect_all false]]></c></tag> <item> <p>If this flag is present, <c><![CDATA[global]]></c> will not maintain a fully connected network of distributed Erlang nodes, and then @@ -287,7 +288,7 @@ <p>Makes <c><![CDATA[init]]></c> write some debug information while interpreting the boot script.</p> </item> - <tag><marker id="instr"><c><![CDATA[-instr]]></c>(emulator flag)</marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="instr"/><c><![CDATA[-instr]]></c>(emulator flag)</tag> <item> <p>Selects an instrumented Erlang runtime system (virtual machine) to run, instead of the ordinary one. When running an @@ -370,7 +371,7 @@ path, similar to <c><![CDATA[code:add_pathsa/1]]></c>. See <seealso marker="kernel:code">code(3)</seealso>. As an alternative to <c>-pa</c>, if several directories are - to be prepended to the code and the directories have a + to be prepended to the code path and the directories have a common parent directory, that parent directory could be specified in the <c>ERL_LIBS</c> environment variable. See <seealso marker="kernel:code">code(3)</seealso>.</p> @@ -381,6 +382,11 @@ similar to <c><![CDATA[code:add_pathsz/1]]></c>. See <seealso marker="kernel:code">code(3)</seealso>.</p> </item> + <tag><c><![CDATA[-path Dir1 Dir2 ...]]></c></tag> + <item> + <p>Replaces the path specified in the boot script. See + <seealso marker="sasl:script">script(4)</seealso>.</p> + </item> <tag><c><![CDATA[-remsh Node]]></c></tag> <item> <p>Starts Erlang with a remote shell connected to <c><![CDATA[Node]]></c>.</p> @@ -435,7 +441,7 @@ flag and those running with the <c><![CDATA[-name]]></c> flag, as node names must be unique in distributed Erlang systems.</p> </item> - <tag><marker id="smp"><c><![CDATA[-smp [enable|auto|disable]]]></c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="smp"/><c><![CDATA[-smp [enable|auto|disable]]]></c></tag> <item> <p><c>-smp enable</c> and <c>-smp</c> starts the Erlang runtime system with SMP support enabled. This may fail if no runtime @@ -461,7 +467,7 @@ <p><c><![CDATA[erl]]></c> invokes the code for the Erlang emulator (virtual machine), which supports the following flags:</p> <taglist> - <tag><marker id="async_thread_stack_size"><c><![CDATA[+a size]]></c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="async_thread_stack_size"/><c><![CDATA[+a size]]></c></tag> <item> <p>Suggested stack size, in kilowords, for threads in the async-thread pool. Valid range is 16-8192 kilowords. The @@ -476,7 +482,7 @@ suggestion, and it might even be ignored on some platforms.</p> </item> - <tag><marker id="async_thread_pool_size"><c><![CDATA[+A size]]></c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="async_thread_pool_size"/><c><![CDATA[+A size]]></c></tag> <item> <p>Sets the number of threads in async thread pool, valid range is 0-1024. If thread support is available, the default is 10.</p> @@ -495,24 +501,35 @@ <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></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></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> @@ -528,7 +545,7 @@ produce a crash dump. On Unix systems, sending an emulator process a SIGUSR1 signal will also force a crash dump.</p> </item> - <tag><marker id="+e"><c><![CDATA[+e Number]]></c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+e"/><c><![CDATA[+e Number]]></c></tag> <item> <p>Set max number of ETS tables.</p> </item> @@ -613,7 +630,7 @@ information about the file names and line numbers. </p> </item> - <tag><marker id="erts_alloc"><c><![CDATA[+MFlag Value]]></c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="erts_alloc"/><c><![CDATA[+MFlag Value]]></c></tag> <item> <p>Memory allocator specific flags, see <seealso marker="erts_alloc">erts_alloc(3)</seealso> for @@ -652,10 +669,10 @@ debugging.</item> </taglist> </item> - <tag><marker id="+pc"/><marker id="printable_character_range"><c><![CDATA[+pc Range]]></c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+pc"/><marker id="printable_character_range"/><c><![CDATA[+pc Range]]></c></tag> <item> <p>Sets the range of characters that the system will consider printable in heuristic detection of strings. This typically affects the shell, debugger and io:format functions (when ~tp is used in the format string).</p> - <p>Currently two values for the <c>Range</c> are supported: + <p>Currently two values for the <c>Range</c> are supported:</p> <taglist> <tag><c>latin1</c></tag> <item>The default. Only characters in the ISO-latin-1 range can be considered printable, which means @@ -670,11 +687,10 @@ example your font does not cover all Unicode characters.</item> </taglist> - </p> <p>Se also <seealso marker="stdlib:io#printable_range/0"> io:printable_range/0</seealso>.</p> </item> - <tag><marker id="+P"/><marker id="max_processes"><c><![CDATA[+P Number|legacy]]></c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+P"/><marker id="max_processes"/><c><![CDATA[+P Number|legacy]]></c></tag> <item> <p>Sets the maximum number of simultaneously existing processes for this system if a <c>Number</c> is passed as value. Valid range for @@ -694,7 +710,7 @@ circumstances be extremely expensive. The legacy algoritm is deprecated, and the <c>legacy</c> option is scheduled for removal in OTP-R18.</p> </item> - <tag><marker id="+Q"/><marker id="max_ports"><c><![CDATA[+Q Number|legacy]]></c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+Q"/><marker id="max_ports"/><c><![CDATA[+Q Number|legacy]]></c></tag> <item> <p>Sets the maximum number of simultaneously existing ports for this system if a Number is passed as value. Valid range for <c>Number</c> @@ -725,7 +741,7 @@ circumstances be extremely expensive. The legacy algoritm is deprecated, and the <c>legacy</c> option is scheduled for removal in OTP-R18.</p> </item> - <tag><marker id="compat_rel"><c><![CDATA[+R ReleaseNumber]]></c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="compat_rel"/><c><![CDATA[+R ReleaseNumber]]></c></tag> <item> <p>Sets the compatibility mode.</p> <p>The distribution mechanism is not backwards compatible by @@ -745,7 +761,7 @@ <item> <p>Force ets memory block to be moved on realloc.</p> </item> - <tag><marker id="+rg"><c><![CDATA[+rg ReaderGroupsLimit]]></c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+rg"/><c><![CDATA[+rg ReaderGroupsLimit]]></c></tag> <item> <p>Limits the amount of reader groups used by read/write locks optimized for read operations in the Erlang runtime system. By @@ -763,7 +779,7 @@ schedulers to logical processors</seealso>, since the reader groups are distributed better between schedulers.</p> </item> - <tag><marker id="+S"><c><![CDATA[+S Schedulers:SchedulerOnline]]></c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+S"/><c><![CDATA[+S Schedulers:SchedulerOnline]]></c></tag> <item> <p>Sets the number of scheduler threads to create and scheduler threads to set online when SMP support has been enabled. The maximum for @@ -788,7 +804,7 @@ SMP support enabled (see the <seealso marker="#smp">-smp</seealso> flag).</p> </item> - <tag><marker id="+SP"><c><![CDATA[+SP SchedulersPercentage:SchedulersOnlinePercentage]]></c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+SP"/><c><![CDATA[+SP SchedulersPercentage:SchedulersOnlinePercentage]]></c></tag> <item> <p>Similar to <seealso marker="#+S">+S</seealso> but uses percentages to set the number of scheduler threads to create, based on logical processors configured, @@ -809,7 +825,7 @@ SMP support enabled (see the <seealso marker="#smp">-smp</seealso> flag).</p> </item> - <tag><marker id="+SDcpu"><c><![CDATA[+SDcpu DirtyCPUSchedulers:DirtyCPUSchedulersOnline]]></c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+SDcpu"/><c><![CDATA[+SDcpu DirtyCPUSchedulers:DirtyCPUSchedulersOnline]]></c></tag> <item> <p>Sets the number of dirty CPU scheduler threads to create and dirty CPU scheduler threads to set online when threading support has been @@ -833,7 +849,7 @@ enabled (it's disabled by default). </p> </item> - <tag><marker id="+SDPcpu"><c><![CDATA[+SDPcpu DirtyCPUSchedulersPercentage:DirtyCPUSchedulersOnlinePercentage]]></c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+SDPcpu"/><c><![CDATA[+SDPcpu DirtyCPUSchedulersPercentage:DirtyCPUSchedulersOnlinePercentage]]></c></tag> <item> <p>Similar to <seealso marker="#+SDcpu">+SDcpu</seealso> but uses percentages to set the number of dirty CPU scheduler threads to create and number of dirty CPU scheduler threads @@ -856,7 +872,7 @@ enabled (it's disabled by default). </p> </item> - <tag><marker id="+SDio"><c><![CDATA[+SDio IOSchedulers]]></c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+SDio"/><c><![CDATA[+SDio IOSchedulers]]></c></tag> <item> <p>Sets the number of dirty I/O scheduler threads to create when threading support has been enabled. The valid range is 0-1024. By default, the number @@ -874,7 +890,7 @@ <item> <p>Scheduling specific flags.</p> <taglist> - <tag><marker id="+sbt"><c>+sbt BindType</c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+sbt"/><c>+sbt BindType</c></tag> <item> <p>Set scheduler bind type.</p> <p>Schedulers can also be bound using the @@ -998,7 +1014,7 @@ <seealso marker="erlang#system_info_scheduler_bindings">erlang:system_info(scheduler_bindings)</seealso>. </p> </item> - <tag><marker id="+sbwt"><c>+sbwt none|very_short|short|medium|long|very_long</c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+sbwt"/><c>+sbwt none|very_short|short|medium|long|very_long</c></tag> <item> <p>Set scheduler busy wait threshold. Default is <c>medium</c>. The threshold determines how long schedulers should busy @@ -1008,7 +1024,7 @@ without prior notice. </p> </item> - <tag><marker id="+scl"><c>+scl true|false</c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+scl"/><c>+scl true|false</c></tag> <item> <p>Enable or disable scheduler compaction of load. By default scheduler compaction of load is enabled. When enabled, load @@ -1025,7 +1041,7 @@ between schedulers. </p> </item> - <tag><marker id="+sct"><c>+sct CpuTopology</c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+sct"/><c>+sct CpuTopology</c></tag> <item> <list type="bulleted"> <item><c><![CDATA[<Id> = integer(); when 0 =< <Id> =< 65535]]></c></item> @@ -1147,12 +1163,12 @@ <p>For more information, see <seealso marker="erlang#system_info_cpu_topology">erlang:system_info(cpu_topology)</seealso>.</p> </item> - <tag><marker id="+secio"><c>+secio true|false</c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+secio"/><c>+secio true|false</c></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, @@ -1164,7 +1180,7 @@ <p><seealso marker="erlang#system_info_eager_check_io"><c>erlang:system_info(eager_check_io)</c></seealso> returns the value of this parameter used when starting the VM.</p> </item> - <tag><marker id="+sfwi"><c>+sfwi Interval</c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+sfwi"/><c>+sfwi Interval</c></tag> <item> <p>Set scheduler forced wakeup interval. All run queues will be scanned each <c>Interval</c> milliseconds. While there are @@ -1173,12 +1189,12 @@ disables this feature, which also is the default. </p> <p>This feature has been introduced as a temporary workaround - for lengthy executing native code, and native code that do not + for long-executing native code, and native code that does not bump reductions properly in OTP. When these bugs have be fixed the <c>+sfwi</c> flag will be removed. </p> </item> - <tag><marker id="+stbt"><c>+stbt BindType</c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+stbt"/><c>+stbt BindType</c></tag> <item> <p>Try to set scheduler bind type. The same as the <seealso marker="#+sbt">+sbt</seealso> flag with the exception of @@ -1186,7 +1202,7 @@ documentation of the <seealso marker="#+sbt">+sbt</seealso> flag. </p> </item> - <tag><marker id="+sub"><c>+sub true|false</c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+sub"/><c>+sub true|false</c></tag> <item> <p>Enable or disable <seealso marker="erts:erlang#statistics_scheduler_wall_time">scheduler @@ -1199,7 +1215,7 @@ balance scheduler utilization between schedulers. That is, strive for equal scheduler utilization on all schedulers. <br/> <c>+sub true</c> is only supported on - systems where the runtime system detects and use a monotonically + systems where the runtime system detects and uses a monotonically increasing high resolution clock. On other systems, the runtime system will fail to start. <br/> <c>+sub true</c> implies @@ -1209,7 +1225,7 @@ utilization. </p> </item> - <tag><marker id="+swct"><c>+swct very_eager|eager|medium|lazy|very_lazy</c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+swct"/><c>+swct very_eager|eager|medium|lazy|very_lazy</c></tag> <item> <p> Set scheduler wake cleanup threshold. Default is <c>medium</c>. @@ -1223,7 +1239,7 @@ <p><em>NOTE:</em> This flag may be removed or changed at any time without prior notice. </p> </item> - <tag><marker id="+sws"><c>+sws default|legacy</c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+sws"/><c>+sws default|legacy</c></tag> <item> <p> Set scheduler wakeup strategy. Default strategy changed in erts-5.10/OTP-R16A. This strategy was previously known as <c>proposal</c> in OTP-R15. The <c>legacy</c> strategy was used as default from R13 up to and including R15. @@ -1231,7 +1247,7 @@ <p><em>NOTE:</em> This flag may be removed or changed at any time without prior notice. </p> </item> - <tag><marker id="+swt"><c>+swt very_low|low|medium|high|very_high</c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+swt"/><c>+swt very_low|low|medium|high|very_high</c></tag> <item> <p>Set scheduler wakeup threshold. Default is <c>medium</c>. The threshold determines when to wake up sleeping schedulers @@ -1245,7 +1261,7 @@ without prior notice. </p> </item> - <tag><marker id="+spp"><c>+spp Bool</c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+spp"/><c>+spp Bool</c></tag> <item> <p>Set default scheduler hint for port parallelism. If set to <c>true</c>, the VM will schedule port tasks when doing so will @@ -1261,7 +1277,7 @@ option to <seealso marker="erlang#open_port/2">open_port/2</seealso></p>. </item> - <tag><marker id="sched_thread_stack_size"><c><![CDATA[+sss size]]></c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="sched_thread_stack_size"/><c><![CDATA[+sss size]]></c></tag> <item> <p>Suggested stack size, in kilowords, for scheduler threads. Valid range is 4-8192 kilowords. The default stack size @@ -1269,11 +1285,11 @@ </item> </taglist> </item> - <tag><marker id="+t"><c><![CDATA[+t size]]></c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+t"/><c><![CDATA[+t size]]></c></tag> <item> <p>Set the maximum number of atoms the VM can handle. Default is 1048576.</p> </item> - <tag><marker id="+T"><c><![CDATA[+T Level]]></c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+T"/><c><![CDATA[+T Level]]></c></tag> <item> <p>Enables modified timing and sets the modified timing level. Currently valid range is 0-9. The timing of the runtime system @@ -1311,13 +1327,14 @@ <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> @@ -1326,7 +1343,7 @@ <item> <p>Miscellaneous flags.</p> <taglist> - <tag><marker id="+zdbbl"><c>+zdbbl size</c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="+zdbbl"/><c>+zdbbl size</c></tag> <item> <p>Set the distribution buffer busy limit (<seealso marker="erlang#system_info_dist_buf_busy_limit">dist_buf_busy_limit</seealso>) @@ -1339,6 +1356,18 @@ give lower latency and higher throughput at the expense of higher memory usage.</p> </item> + <tag><marker id="+zdntgc"/><c>+zdntgc time</c></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> @@ -1401,7 +1430,7 @@ </item> </taglist> </item> - <tag><marker id="ERL_AFLAGS"><c><![CDATA[ERL_AFLAGS]]></c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="ERL_AFLAGS"/><c><![CDATA[ERL_AFLAGS]]></c></tag> <item> <p>The content of this environment variable will be added to the beginning of the command line for <c><![CDATA[erl]]></c>.</p> @@ -1411,7 +1440,7 @@ the <c><![CDATA[-extra]]></c> section, i.e. the end of the command line following after an <c><![CDATA[-extra]]></c> flag.</p> </item> - <tag><marker id="ERL_ZFLAGS"><c><![CDATA[ERL_ZFLAGS]]></c></marker> and <marker id="ERL_FLAGS"><c><![CDATA[ERL_FLAGS]]></c></marker></tag> + <tag><marker id="ERL_ZFLAGS"/><c><![CDATA[ERL_ZFLAGS]]></c> and <marker id="ERL_FLAGS"/><c><![CDATA[ERL_FLAGS]]></c></tag> <item> <p>The content of these environment variables will be added to the end of the command line for <c><![CDATA[erl]]></c>.</p> |