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+++ b/erts/doc/src/init.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1996</year><year>2013</year>
+ <year>1996</year><year>2016</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -178,14 +178,8 @@
<name name="stop" arity="0"/>
<fsummary>Take down an Erlang node smoothly</fsummary>
<desc>
- <p>All applications are taken down smoothly, all code is
- unloaded, and all ports are closed before the system
- terminates. If the <c>-heart</c> command line flag was given,
- the <c>heart</c> program is terminated before the Erlang node
- terminates. Refer to <c>heart(3)</c> for more information.</p>
- <p>To limit the shutdown time, the time <c>init</c> is allowed
- to spend taking down applications, the <c>-shutdown_time</c>
- command line flag should be used.</p>
+ <p>The same as
+ <seealso marker="#stop/1"><c>stop(0)</c></seealso>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -241,16 +235,18 @@
marker="kernel:code">code(3)</seealso>.</p>
</item>
+ <tag><c>-epmd_module Module</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Specifies the module to use for registration and lookup of
+ node names. Defaults to <c>erl_epmd</c>.</p>
+ </item>
<tag><c>-eval Expr</c></tag>
<item>
<p>Scans, parses and evaluates an arbitrary expression
<c>Expr</c> during system initialization. If any of these
steps fail (syntax error, parse error or exception during
evaluation), Erlang stops with an error message. Here is an
- example that seeds the random number generator:</p>
- <pre>
-% <input>erl -eval '{X,Y,Z} = now(), random:seed(X,Y,Z).'</input></pre>
- <p>This example uses Erlang as a hexadecimal calculator:</p>
+ example that uses Erlang as a hexadecimal calculator:</p>
<pre>
% <input>erl -noshell -eval 'R = 16#1F+16#A0, io:format("~.16B~n", [R])' \\</input>
<input>-s erlang halt</input>