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-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erlang.xml17
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/notes.xml37
2 files changed, 46 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index 105734d5b2..11f2d36a01 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -1943,23 +1943,26 @@ os_prompt%</pre>
<item>The runtime system exits with integer value
<c><anno>Status</anno></c>
as status code to the calling environment (OS).
+ <note>
+ <p>On many platforms, the OS supports only status
+ codes 0-255. A too large status code is truncated by clearing
+ the high bits.</p>
+ </note>
</item>
<tag>string()</tag>
<item>An Erlang crash dump is produced with <c><anno>Status</anno></c>
as slogan. Then the runtime system exits with status code <c>1</c>.
- Note that only code points in the range 0-255 may be used
- and the string will be truncated if longer than 200 characters.
+ The string will be truncated if longer than 200 characters.
+ <note>
+ <p>Before ERTS 9.1 (OTP-20.1) only code points in the range 0-255
+ was accepted in the string. Now any unicode string is valid.</p>
+ </note>
</item>
<tag><c>abort</c></tag>
<item>The runtime system aborts producing a core dump, if that is
enabled in the OS.
</item>
</taglist>
- <note>
- <p>On many platforms, the OS supports only status
- codes 0-255. A too large status code is truncated by clearing
- the high bits.</p>
- </note>
<p>For integer <c><anno>Status</anno></c>, the Erlang runtime system
closes all ports and allows async threads to finish their
operations before exiting. To exit without such flushing, use
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/notes.xml b/erts/doc/src/notes.xml
index 367d6d4d0a..f6bc6e984b 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -162,7 +162,6 @@
</section>
<section><title>Erts 9.0</title>
-
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<list>
<item>
@@ -761,6 +760,42 @@
</section>
+<section><title>Erts 8.3.5.1</title>
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fixed a bug in gen_tcp:send where it never returned when
+ repeatedly called on a remotely closed TCP socket.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13939 Aux Id: ERL-193 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fixed segfault that could happen during cleanup of
+ aborted erlang:port_command/3 calls. A port_command is
+ aborted if the port is closed at the same time as the
+ port_command was issued. This bug was introduced in
+ erts-8.0.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14481</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fixed implementation of <c>statistics(wall_clock)</c> and
+ <c>statistics(runtime)</c> so that values do not
+ unnecessarily wrap due to the emulator. Note that the
+ values returned by <c>statistics(runtime)</c> may still
+ wrap due to limitations in the underlying functionality
+ provided by the operating system.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14484</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Erts 8.3.5</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>