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<seealso marker="#system_info_multi_scheduling">erlang:system_info(multi_scheduling)</seealso>, and
<seealso marker="#system_info_schedulers">erlang:system_info(schedulers)</seealso>.</p>
</item>
- <tag><marker id="system_info_otp_correction_package"><c>otp_correction_package</c></marker></tag>
- <item>
- <p>Returns a string containing the OTP correction package version
- number that currenly executing VM is part of. Note that other
- OTP applications in the system may be part of other OTP correction
- packages.</p>
- </item>
<tag><marker id="system_info_otp_release"><c>otp_release</c></marker></tag>
<item>
- <p>Returns a string containing the OTP release number.</p>
+ <p>Returns a string containing the OTP release number of the
+ OTP release that the currently executing ERTS application is
+ part of.</p>
+ <p>As of OTP release 17, the OTP release number corresponds to
+ the major OTP version number. There is no
+ <c>erlang:system_info()</c> argument giving the exact OTP
+ version. This since the exact OTP version in the general case
+ is hard to determine. For more information see
+ <seealso marker="doc/installation_guide:otp_version">the
+ documentation of the OTP version in the installation
+ guide</seealso>.</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.