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Diffstat (limited to 'erts/doc/src/erl_nif.xml')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl_nif.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl_nif.xml index 2b627281fe..b5dc9037c4 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erl_nif.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_nif.xml @@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ return term;</code> register/unregister its name, and so on.</p> <p>Termination of a process executing a dirty NIF can only be completed up to a certain point while it executes the dirty NIF. - All Erlang resources, such as its registered name and its <c>ets</c> + All Erlang resources, such as its registered name and its ETS tables, are released. All links and monitors are triggered. The execution of the NIF is, however, <em>not</em> stopped. The NIF can safely continue execution, allocate heap memory, and so on, @@ -488,18 +488,6 @@ return term;</code> sending process is not alive. Deallocation of certain internal resources, such as process heap and process control block, is delayed until the dirty NIF has completed.</p> - <p>Known issue that are planned to be fixed:</p> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item> - <p>As purging of a module might need to garbage - collect a process to determine if it has - references to the module, a process executing a dirty - NIF can delay purging for a very long time. Delaying - a purge operation implies delaying <em>all</em> code - loading operations, which can cause severe problems for - the system as a whole.</p> - </item> - </list> </item> </taglist> </item> @@ -1585,7 +1573,7 @@ typedef enum { <seealso marker="#enif_raise_exception"> <c>enif_raise_exception</c></seealso>.</p> <note> - <p>Before <c>ERTS</c> 7.0 (Erlang/OTP 18), the return value + <p>Before ERTS 7.0 (Erlang/OTP 18), the return value from <c>enif_make_badarg</c> had to be returned from the NIF. This requirement is now lifted as the return value from the NIF is ignored if <c>enif_make_badarg</c> has been invoked.</p> @@ -2573,7 +2561,7 @@ enif_map_iterator_destroy(env, &iter);</code> thread.</p> <note> <p>Passing <c>msg_env</c> as <c>NULL</c> is only supported as from - <c>ERTS</c> 8.0 (Erlang/OTP 19).</p> + ERTS 8.0 (Erlang/OTP 19).</p> </note> </desc> </func> |