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Diffstat (limited to 'erts/doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/Makefile | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/absform.xml | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erl_nif.xml | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erlang.xml | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/notes.xml | 225 |
5 files changed, 247 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/Makefile b/erts/doc/src/Makefile index 3cc29e14b1..21aa3db864 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/Makefile +++ b/erts/doc/src/Makefile @@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ debug opt: clean: rm -rf $(HTMLDIR)/* + rm -rf $(XMLDIR) rm -f $(MAN1DIR)/* rm -f $(MAN3DIR)/* rm -f $(TOP_PDF_FILE) $(TOP_PDF_FILE:%.pdf=%.fo) diff --git a/erts/doc/src/absform.xml b/erts/doc/src/absform.xml index 158f4dc4e8..f29bb7b8f9 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/absform.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/absform.xml @@ -801,7 +801,8 @@ <c>{ann_type,LINE,[Rep(A),Rep(T_0)]}</c>.</p> </item> <item> - <p>If T is an atom or integer literal L, then Rep(T) = Rep(L).</p> + <p>If T is an atom, a character, or an integer literal L, + then Rep(T) = Rep(L).</p> </item> <item> <p>If T is a bitstring type <c><<_:M,_:_*N>></c>, diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl_nif.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl_nif.xml index a8eff43623..a20b8ee884 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erl_nif.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_nif.xml @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ ok <p>Binaries are sequences of whole bytes. Bitstrings with an arbitrary bit length have no support yet.</p> </item> - <tag>Resource objects</tag> + <tag><marker id="resource_objects"/>Resource objects</tag> <item> <p>The use of resource objects is a safe way to return pointers to native data structures from a NIF. A resource object is @@ -1250,8 +1250,9 @@ typedef struct { <fsummary>Format strings and Erlang terms.</fsummary> <desc> <p>Similar to <c>fprintf</c> but this format string also accepts - <c>"%T"</c>, which formats Erlang terms.</p> - <p>This function was originally intenden for debugging purpose. It is not + <c>"%T"</c>, which formats Erlang terms of type + <seealso marker="#ERL_NIF_TERM"><c>ERL_NIF_TERM</c></seealso>.</p> + <p>This function is primarily intenden for debugging purpose. It is not recommended to print very large terms with <c>%T</c>. The function may change <c>errno</c>, even if successful.</p> </desc> @@ -3191,8 +3192,9 @@ if (retval & ERL_NIF_SELECT_STOP_CALLED) { <fsummary>Format strings and Erlang terms.</fsummary> <desc> <p>Similar to <c>snprintf</c> but this format string also accepts - <c>"%T"</c>, which formats Erlang terms.</p> - <p>This function was originally intenden for debugging purpose. It is not + <c>"%T"</c>, which formats Erlang terms of type + <seealso marker="#ERL_NIF_TERM"><c>ERL_NIF_TERM</c></seealso>.</p> + <p>This function is primarily intenden for debugging purpose. It is not recommended to print very large terms with <c>%T</c>. The function may change <c>errno</c>, even if successful.</p> </desc> diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml index 29b1d106cd..8e014c3010 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml @@ -197,6 +197,15 @@ </desc> </datatype> + <datatype> + <name name="nif_resource"></name> + <desc> + <p>An opaque handle identifing a + <seealso marker="erl_nif#resource_objects">NIF resource object + </seealso>.</p> + </desc> + </datatype> + </datatypes> <funcs> @@ -3772,13 +3781,6 @@ RealSystem = system + MissedSystem</code> If found, that driver is started. A driver runs in the Erlang work space, which means that it is linked with the Erlang runtime system.</p> - <p>When starting external programs on Solaris, the system - call <c>vfork</c> is used in preference to <c>fork</c> - for performance reasons, although it has a history of - being less robust. If there are problems using - <c>vfork</c>, setting environment variable - <c>ERL_NO_VFORK</c> to any value causes <c>fork</c> - to be used instead.</p> <p>For external programs, <c>PATH</c> is searched (or an equivalent method is used to find programs, depending on the OS). This is done by invoking @@ -5295,10 +5297,10 @@ RealSystem = system + MissedSystem</code> <p><c><anno>MinBinVHeapSize</anno></c> is the minimum binary virtual heap size for the process.</p> </item> - <tag><c>{monitored_by, <anno>Pids</anno>}</c></tag> + <tag><c>{monitored_by, <anno>MonitoredBy</anno>}</c></tag> <item> - <p>A list of process identifiers monitoring the process (with - <c>monitor/2</c>).</p> + <p>A list of identifiers for all the processes, ports and NIF + resources, that are monitoring the process.</p> </item> <tag><c>{monitors, <anno>Monitors</anno>}</c></tag> <item> diff --git a/erts/doc/src/notes.xml b/erts/doc/src/notes.xml index 3b300c8c72..6b4db48f61 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/notes.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/notes.xml @@ -31,6 +31,114 @@ </header> <p>This document describes the changes made to the ERTS application.</p> +<section><title>Erts 10.0.5</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Fixed a bug which caused an emulator crash when + <c>enif_send()</c> was called by a NIF that executed on a + dirty scheduler. The bug was either triggered when the + NIF called <c>enif_send()</c> without a message + environment, or when the process executing the NIF was + <c>send</c> traced.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15223</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fixed a bug causing some Erlang references to be + inconsistently ordered. This could for example cause + failure to look up certain elements with references as + keys in search data structures. This bug was introduced + in R13B02.</p> + <p> + Thanks to Simon Cornish for finding the bug and supplying + a fix.</p> + <p> + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15225</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Erts 10.0.4</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p>Fixed a bug that prevented the <c>noshell</c> option + from working correctly on Mac OS X and BSD.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15169</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Fixed a crash when matching directly against a literal + map using a single key that had been saved on the + stack.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15184</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Fix node crash when passing a bad time option to + <c>file:read_file_info/2</c>.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15196</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Erts 10.0.3</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p>Fixed a scheduler bug that caused normal schedulers to + run dirty code.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15154</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fixed a bug in <c>erlang:trace_info/2</c> which caused + the emulator to crash when a bad argument was passed. The + bug was introduced in ERTS version 10.0.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15183 Aux Id: ERL-670 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Erts 10.0.2</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p>Fixed a rare bug that could cause processes to be + scheduled after they had been freed.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15067 Aux Id: ERL-573 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Fixed a race condition in the inet driver that could + cause receive to hang when the emulator was compiled with + gcc 8.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15158 Aux Id: ERL-654 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + <section><title>Erts 10.0.1</title> <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> @@ -982,6 +1090,66 @@ </section> +<section><title>Erts 9.3.3.3</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Fixed a bug which caused an emulator crash when + <c>enif_send()</c> was called by a NIF that executed on a + dirty scheduler. The bug was either triggered when the + NIF called <c>enif_send()</c> without a message + environment, or when the process executing the NIF was + <c>send</c> traced.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15223</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fixed a bug causing some Erlang references to be + inconsistently ordered. This could for example cause + failure to look up certain elements with references as + keys in search data structures. This bug was introduced + in R13B02.</p> + <p> + Thanks to Simon Cornish for finding the bug and supplying + a fix.</p> + <p> + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15225</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Erts 9.3.3.2</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p>Fixed a race condition in the inet driver that could + cause receive to hang when the emulator was compiled with + gcc 8.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15158 Aux Id: ERL-654 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fix bug in generation of erl_crash.dump, which could + cause VM to crash.</p> + <p> + Bug exist since erts-9.2 (OTP-20.2).</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15181</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + <section><title>Erts 9.3.3.1</title> <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> @@ -2424,6 +2592,63 @@ </section> +<section><title>Erts 8.3.5.5</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p>Fixed a race condition in the inet driver that could + cause receive to hang when the emulator was compiled with + gcc 8.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15158 Aux Id: ERL-654 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fixed a bug causing some Erlang references to be + inconsistently ordered. This could for example cause + failure to look up certain elements with references as + keys in search data structures. This bug was introduced + in R13B02.</p> + <p> + Thanks to Simon Cornish for finding the bug and supplying + a fix.</p> + <p> + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-15225</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Erts 8.3.5.4</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p>Fixed a bug in file closure on Unix; close(2) was + retried on EINTR which could cause a different (recently + opened) file to be closed as well.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14775</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + A race-condition when tearing down a connection with + active node monitors could cause the runtime system to + crash.</p> + <p> + This bug was introduced in ERTS version 8.0 (OTP 19.0).</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-14781 Aux Id: OTP-13047 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + <section><title>Erts 8.3.5.3</title> <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> |