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</section>
<section>
+ <marker id="signals"></marker>
+ <title>Signals</title>
+ <p>On Unix systems, the Erlang runtime will interpret two types of signals.</p>
+ <taglist>
+ <tag><c>SIGUSR1</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>A <c>SIGUSR1</c> signal forces a crash dump.</p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c>SIGTERM</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>A <c>SIGTERM</c> will produce a <c>stop</c> message to the <c>init</c> process.
+ This is equivalent to a <c>init:stop/0</c> call.</p>
+ <p>Introduced in ERTS 8.3 (Erlang/OTP 19.3)</p>
+ </item>
+ </taglist>
+ <p>The signal <c>SIGUSR2</c> is reserved for internal usage. No other signals are handled.</p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
<marker id="configuration"></marker>
<title>Configuration</title>
<p>The standard Erlang/OTP system can be reconfigured to change the default