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diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml index 5002c48ca1..1a97a84b42 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml @@ -854,10 +854,10 @@ b</pre> </func> <func> <name name="exit" arity="2"/> - <fsummary>Send an exit signal to a process</fsummary> + <fsummary>Send an exit signal to a process or a port</fsummary> <desc> <p>Sends an exit signal with exit reason <c><anno>Reason</anno></c> to - the process <c><anno>Pid</anno></c>.</p> + the process or port identified by <c><anno>Pid</anno></c>.</p> <p>The following behavior apply if <c><anno>Reason</anno></c> is any term except <c>normal</c> or <c>kill</c>:</p> <p>If <c><anno>Pid</anno></c> is not trapping exits, <c><anno>Pid</anno></c> itself will @@ -2760,6 +2760,18 @@ os_prompt% </pre> console window when spawning the port program. (This option has no effect on other platforms.)</p> </item> + <tag><marker id="open_port_parallelism"><c>{parallelism, Boolean}</c></marker></tag> + <item> + <p>Set scheduler hint for port parallelism. If set to <c>true</c>, + the VM will schedule port tasks when it by this can improve the + parallelism in the system. If set to <c>false</c>, the VM will + try to perform port tasks immediately and by this improving the + latency at the expense of parallelism. The default can be set on + system startup by passing the + <seealso marker="erl#+spp">+spp</seealso> command line argument + to <seealso marker="erl">erl(1)</seealso>. + </p> + </item> </taglist> <p>The default is <c>stream</c> for all types of port and <c>use_stdio</c> for spawned ports.</p> @@ -2812,10 +2824,11 @@ os_prompt% </pre> the owning process using signals of the form <c>{'EXIT', Port, PosixCode}</c>. See <c>file(3)</c> for possible values of <c>PosixCode</c>.</p> - <p><marker id="ERL_MAX_PORTS"></marker> - The maximum number of ports that can be open at the same - time is 1024 by default, but can be configured by - the environment variable <c>ERL_MAX_PORTS</c>.</p> + <p>The maximum number of ports that can be open at the same + time can be configured by passing the + <seealso marker="erl#max_ports"><c>+Q</c></seealso> + command line flag to + <seealso marker="erl"><c>erl(1)</c></seealso>.</p> </desc> </func> <func> @@ -2873,10 +2886,10 @@ os_prompt% </pre> <desc> <p>Closes an open port. Roughly the same as <c><anno>Port</anno> ! {self(), close}</c> except for the error behaviour - (see below), and that the port does <em>not</em> reply with - <c>{Port, closed}</c>. Any process may close a port with - <c>port_close/1</c>, not only the port owner (the connected - process).</p> + (see below), being synchronous, and that the port does + <em>not</em> reply with <c>{Port, closed}</c>. Any process may + close a port with <c>port_close/1</c>, not only the port owner + (the connected process).</p> <p>For comparison: <c><anno>Port</anno> ! {self(), close}</c> fails with <c>badarg</c> if <c><anno>Port</anno></c> cannot be sent to (i.e., <c><anno>Port</anno></c> refers neither to a port nor to a process). If @@ -2888,8 +2901,12 @@ os_prompt% </pre> <p>Note that any process can close a port using <c><anno>Port</anno> ! {PortOwner, close}</c> just as if it itself was the port owner, but the reply always goes to the port owner.</p> - <p>In short: <c>port_close(Port)</c> has a cleaner and more - logical behaviour than <c><anno>Port</anno> ! {self(), close}</c>.</p> + <p>As of OTP-R16 <c><anno>Port</anno> ! {PortOwner, close}</c> is truly + asynchronous. Note that this operation has always been + documented as an asynchronous operation, while the underlying + implementation has been synchronous. <c>port_close/1</c> is + however still fully synchronous. This due to its error + behavior.</p> <p>Failure: <c>badarg</c> if <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not an open port or the registered name of an open port.</p> </desc> @@ -2899,11 +2916,11 @@ os_prompt% </pre> <fsummary>Send data to a port</fsummary> <desc> <p>Sends data to a port. Same as - <c><anno>Port</anno> ! {self(), {command, Data}}</c> except for the error - behaviour (see below). Any process may send data to a port - with <c>port_command/2</c>, not only the port owner - (the connected process).</p> - <p>For comparison: <c><anno>Port</anno> ! {self(), {command, Data}}</c> + <c><anno>Port</anno> ! {PortOwner, {command, Data}}</c> except for the error + behaviour and being synchronous (see below). Any process may + send data to a port with <c>port_command/2</c>, not only the + port owner (the connected process).</p> + <p>For comparison: <c><anno>Port</anno> ! {PortOwner, {command, Data}}</c> fails with <c>badarg</c> if <c><anno>Port</anno></c> cannot be sent to (i.e., <c><anno>Port</anno></c> refers neither to a port nor to a process). If <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is a closed port the data message disappears @@ -2914,11 +2931,14 @@ os_prompt% </pre> <p>Note that any process can send to a port using <c><anno>Port</anno> ! {PortOwner, {command, <anno>Data</anno>}}</c> just as if it itself was the port owner.</p> - <p>In short: <c>port_command(<anno>Port</anno>, <anno>Data</anno>)</c> has a cleaner and - more logical behaviour than - <c><anno>Port</anno> ! {self(), {command, Data}}</c>.</p> <p>If the port is busy, the calling process will be suspended until the port is not busy anymore.</p> + <p>As of OTP-R16 <c><anno>Port</anno> ! {PortOwner, {command, Data}}</c> is + truly asynchronous. Note that this operation has always been + documented as an asynchronous operation, while the underlying + implementation has been synchronous. <c>port_command/2</c> is + however still fully synchronous. This due to its error + behavior.</p> <p>Failures:</p> <taglist> <tag><c>badarg</c></tag> @@ -2992,7 +3012,7 @@ os_prompt% </pre> <fsummary>Set the owner of a port</fsummary> <desc> <p>Sets the port owner (the connected port) to <c><anno>Pid</anno></c>. - Roughly the same as <c><anno>Port</anno> ! {self(), {connect, <anno>Pid</anno>}}</c> + Roughly the same as <c><anno>Port</anno> ! {Owner, {connect, <anno>Pid</anno>}}</c> except for the following:</p> <list type="bulleted"> <item> @@ -3003,6 +3023,9 @@ os_prompt% </pre> <c>{Port,connected}</c>.</p> </item> <item> + <p><c>port_connect/1</c> is synchronous, see below.</p> + </item> + <item> <p>The new port owner gets linked to the port.</p> </item> </list> @@ -3026,11 +3049,14 @@ os_prompt% </pre> <c><anno>Port</anno> ! {PortOwner, {connect, <anno>Pid</anno>}}</c> just as if it itself was the port owner, but the reply always goes to the port owner.</p> - <p>In short: <c>port_connect(<anno>Port</anno>, <anno>Pid</anno>)</c> has a cleaner and - more logical behaviour than - <c><anno>Port</anno> ! {self(),{connect,<anno>Pid</anno>}}</c>.</p> + <p>As of OTP-R16 <c><anno>Port</anno> ! {PortOwner, {connect, <anno>Pid</anno>}}</c> is + truly asynchronous. Note that this operation has always been + documented as an asynchronous operation, while the underlying + implementation has been synchronous. <c>port_connect/2</c> is + however still fully synchronous. This due to its error + behavior.</p> <p>Failure: <c>badarg</c> if <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not an open port - or the registered name of an open port, or if <c><anno>Pid</anno></c> is + or the registered name of an open port, or if <c>Pid</c> is not an existing local pid.</p> </desc> </func> @@ -3077,71 +3103,187 @@ os_prompt% </pre> </func> <func> <name name="port_info" arity="1"/> - <type name="port_info_result_item"/> <fsummary>Information about a port</fsummary> <desc> <p>Returns a list containing tuples with information about the <c><anno>Port</anno></c>, or <c>undefined</c> if the port is not open. The order of the tuples is not defined, nor are all the tuples mandatory.</p> - <taglist> - <tag><c>{registered_name, <anno>RegName</anno>}</c></tag> - <item> - <p><c><anno>RegName</anno></c> (an atom) is the registered name of - the port. If the port has no registered name, this tuple - is not present in the list.</p> - </item> - <tag><c>{id, <anno>Index</anno>}</c></tag> - <item> - <p><c><anno>Index</anno></c> (an integer) is the internal index of the - port. This index may be used to separate ports.</p> - </item> - <tag><c>{connected, <anno>Pid</anno>}</c></tag> - <item> - <p><c><anno>Pid</anno></c> is the process connected to the port.</p> - </item> - <tag><c>{links, <anno>Pids</anno>}</c></tag> - <item> - <p><c><anno>Pids</anno></c> is a list of pids to which processes the - port is linked.</p> - </item> - <tag><c>{name, <anno>String</anno>}</c></tag> - <item> - <p><c><anno>String</anno></c> is the command name set by - <c>open_port</c>.</p> - </item> - <tag><c>{input, <anno>Bytes</anno>}</c></tag> - <item> - <p><c><anno>Bytes</anno></c> is the total number of bytes read from - the port.</p> - </item> - <tag><c>{output, <anno>Bytes</anno>}</c></tag> - <item> - <p><c><anno>Bytes</anno></c> is the total number of bytes written to - the port.</p> - </item> - <tag><c>{os_pid, <anno>OsPid</anno> | undefined}</c></tag> - <item> - <p><c> <anno>OsPid</anno></c> is the process identifier (or equivalent) of an OS process created with <c>open_port({spawn | spawn_executable, Command}, Options)</c>. If the port is not the result of spawning an OS process, the value is <c>undefined</c>.</p> - </item> - </taglist> - <p>Failure: <c>badarg</c> if <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not a local port.</p> + <p>Currently the result will containt information about the + following <c>Item</c>s: <c>registered_name</c> (if the port has + a registered name), <c>id</c>, <c>connected</c>, <c>links</c>, + <c>name</c>, <c>input</c>, and <c>output</c>. For more information + about the different <c>Item</c>s, see + <seealso marker="#port_info/2">port_info/2</seealso>.</p> + <p>Failure: <c>badarg</c> if <c>Port</c> is not a local port + identifier, or an atom.</p> </desc> </func> <func> - <name name="port_info" arity="2"/> - <type name="port_info_item"/> - <type name="port_info_result_item"/> - <fsummary>Information about a port</fsummary> + <name name="port_info" arity="2" clause_i="1"/> + <fsummary>Information about the connected process of a port</fsummary> + <desc> + <p><c><anno>Pid</anno></c> is the process identifier of the process + connected to the port.</p> + <p>If the port identified by <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not open, + <c>undefined</c> is returned.</p> + <p>Failure: <c>badarg</c> if <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not a local + port identifier, or an atom.</p> + </desc> + </func> + <func> + <name name="port_info" arity="2" clause_i="2"/> + <fsummary>Information about the internal index of a port</fsummary> + <desc> + <p><c><anno>Index</anno></c> is the internal index of the port. This + index may be used to separate ports.</p> + <p>If the port identified by <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not open, + <c>undefined</c> is returned.</p> + <p>Failure: <c>badarg</c> if <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not a local + port identifier, or an atom.</p> + </desc> + </func> + <func> + <name name="port_info" arity="2" clause_i="3"/> + <fsummary>Information about the input of a port</fsummary> + <desc> + <p><c><anno>Bytes</anno></c> is the total number of bytes + read from the port.</p> + <p>If the port identified by <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not open, + <c>undefined</c> is returned.</p> + <p>Failure: <c>badarg</c> if <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not a local + port identifier, or an atom.</p> + </desc> + </func> + <func> + <name name="port_info" arity="2" clause_i="4"/> + <fsummary>Information about the links of a port</fsummary> + <desc> + <p><c><anno>Pids</anno></c> is a list of the process identifiers + of the processes that the port is linked to.</p> + <p>If the port identified by <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not open, + <c>undefined</c> is returned.</p> + <p>Failure: <c>badarg</c> if <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not a local + port identifier, or an atom.</p> + </desc> + </func> + <func> + <name name="port_info" arity="2" clause_i="5"/> + <fsummary>Information about the locking of a port</fsummary> <desc> - <p>Returns information about <c><anno>Port</anno></c> as specified - by <c><anno>Item</anno></c>, or <c>undefined</c> if the port is not open. - Also, if <c>Item =:= registered_name</c> and the port has no - registered name, <c>[]</c> is returned.</p> - <p>For valid values of <c><anno>Item</anno></c>, and corresponding - values of <c><anno>Result</anno></c>, see - <seealso marker="#port_info/1">erlang:port_info/1</seealso>.</p> - <p>Failure: <c>badarg</c> if <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not a local port.</p> + <p><c><anno>Locking</anno></c> is currently either <c>false</c> + (emulator without SMP support), <c>port_level</c> (port specific + locking), or <c>driver_level</c> (driver specific locking). Note + that these results are highly implementation specific and might + change in the future.</p> + <p>If the port identified by <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not open, + <c>undefined</c> is returned.</p> + <p>Failure: <c>badarg</c> if <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not a local + port identifier, or an atom.</p> + </desc> + </func> + <func> + <name name="port_info" arity="2" clause_i="6"/> + <fsummary>Information about the memory size of a port</fsummary> + <desc> + <p><c><anno>Bytes</anno></c> is the total amount of memory, + in bytes, allocated for this port by the runtime system. Note + that the port itself might have allocated memory which is not + included in <c><anno>Bytes</anno></c>.</p> + <p>If the port identified by <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not open, + <c>undefined</c> is returned.</p> + <p>Failure: <c>badarg</c> if <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not a local + port identifier, or an atom.</p> + </desc> + </func> + <func> + <name name="port_info" arity="2" clause_i="7"/> + <fsummary>Information about the monitors of a port</fsummary> + <desc> + <p><c><anno>Monitors</anno></c> represent processes that this port + is monitoring.</p> + <p>If the port identified by <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not open, + <c>undefined</c> is returned.</p> + <p>Failure: <c>badarg</c> if <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not a local + port identifier, or an atom.</p> + </desc> + </func> + <func> + <name name="port_info" arity="2" clause_i="8"/> + <fsummary>Information about the name of a port</fsummary> + <desc> + <p><c><anno>Name</anno></c> is the command name set by + <seealso marker="#open_port/2">open_port/2</seealso>.</p> + <p>If the port identified by <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not open, + <c>undefined</c> is returned.</p> + <p>Failure: <c>badarg</c> if <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not a local + port identifier, or an atom.</p> + </desc> + </func> + <func> + <name name="port_info" arity="2" clause_i="9"/> + <fsummary>Information about the OS pid of a port</fsummary> + <desc> + <p><c><anno>OsPid</anno></c> is the process identifier (or equivalent) + of an OS process created with + <seealso marker="#open_port/2">open_port({spawn | spawn_executable, + Command}, Options)</seealso>. If the port is not the result of spawning + an OS process, the value is <c>undefined</c>.</p> + <p>If the port identified by <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not open, + <c>undefined</c> is returned.</p> + <p>Failure: <c>badarg</c> if <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not a local + port identifier, or an atom.</p> + </desc> + </func> + <func> + <name name="port_info" arity="2" clause_i="10"/> + <fsummary>Information about the output of a port</fsummary> + <desc> + <p><c><anno>Bytes</anno></c> is the total number of bytes written + to the port from Erlang processes using either + <seealso marker="#port_command/2">port_command/2</seealso>, + <seealso marker="#port_command/3">port_command/3</seealso>, + or <c><anno>Port</anno> ! {Owner, {command, Data}</c>. + </p> + <p>If the port identified by <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not open, + <c>undefined</c> is returned.</p> + <p>Failure: <c>badarg</c> if <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not a local + port identifier, or an atom.</p> + </desc> + </func> + <func> + <name name="port_info" arity="2" clause_i="11"/> + <fsummary>Information about the parallelism hint of a port</fsummary> + <desc> + <p><c><anno>Boolean</anno></c> corresponds to the port parallelism + hint being used by this port. For more information see + the <seealso marker="#open_port_parallelism">parallelism</seealso> + option of <seealso marker="#open_port/2">open_port/2</seealso>.</p> + </desc> + </func> + <func> + <name name="port_info" arity="2" clause_i="12"/> + <fsummary>Information about the queue size of a port</fsummary> + <desc> + <p><c><anno>Bytes</anno></c> is the total amount of data, + in bytes, queued by the port using the ERTS driver queue + implementation.</p> + <p>If the port identified by <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not open, + <c>undefined</c> is returned.</p> + <p>Failure: <c>badarg</c> if <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not a local + port identifier, or an atom.</p> + </desc> + </func> + <func> + <name name="port_info" arity="2" clause_i="13"/> + <fsummary>Information about the registered name of a port</fsummary> + <desc> + <p><c><anno>RegisteredName</anno></c> is the registered name of + the port. If the port has no registered name, <c>[]</c> is returned.</p> + <p>If the port identified by <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not open, + <c>undefined</c> is returned.</p> + <p>Failure: <c>badarg</c> if <c><anno>Port</anno></c> is not a local + port identifier, or an atom.</p> </desc> </func> <func> @@ -3161,7 +3303,10 @@ os_prompt% </pre> <name name="ports" arity="0"/> <fsummary>All open ports</fsummary> <desc> - <p>Returns a list of all ports on the local node.</p> + <p>Returns a list of port identifiers corresponding to all the + ports currently existing on the local node.</p> + + <p>Note that a port that is exiting, exists but is not open.</p> </desc> </func> <func> @@ -5494,19 +5639,40 @@ ok <item> <p>Returns a string containing the OTP release number.</p> </item> + <tag><marker id="system_info_port_parallelism"><c>port_parallelism</c></marker></tag> + <item><p>Returns the default port parallelism scheduling hint used. + For more information see the + <seealso marker="erl#+spp">+spp</seealso> command line argument + of <seealso marker="erl">erl(1)</seealso>.</p></item> + <tag><c>process_count</c></tag> + <item> + <p>Returns the number of ports currently existing at + the local node as an integer. The same value as + <c>length(erlang:ports())</c> returns.</p> + </item> + <tag><marker id="system_info_port_limit"><c>port_limit</c></marker></tag> + <item> + <p>Returns the maximum number of simultaneously existing + ports at the local node as an integer. This limit + can be configured at startup by using the + <seealso marker="erl#max_ports"><c>+Q</c></seealso> + command line flag of + <seealso marker="erl"><c>erl(1)</c></seealso>.</p> + </item> <tag><c>process_count</c></tag> <item> <p>Returns the number of processes currently existing at the local node as an integer. The same value as <c>length(processes())</c> returns.</p> </item> - <tag><c>process_limit</c></tag> + <tag><marker id="system_info_process_limit"><c>process_limit</c></marker></tag> <item> - <p>Returns the maximum number of concurrently existing + <p>Returns the maximum number of simultaneously existing processes at the local node as an integer. This limit - can be configured at startup by using the command line - flag <c>+P</c>, see - <seealso marker="erts:erl#max_processes">erl(1)</seealso>.</p> + can be configured at startup by using the + <seealso marker="erl#max_processes"><c>+P</c></seealso> + command line flag of + <seealso marker="erl"><c>erl(1)</c></seealso>.</p> </item> <tag><c>procs</c></tag> <item> |