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<pre>
% <input>erl -heart -env HEART_KILL_SIGNAL SIGABRT ...</input></pre>
+ <p> If heart should <b>not</b> kill the Erlang runtime system, this can be indicated
+ using the environment variable <c><![CDATA[HEART_NO_KILL]]></c>.
+ This can be useful if the command executed by heart takes care of this,
+ for example as part of a specific cleanup sequence.
+ If unset, the default behaviour will be to kill as described above.
+ </p>
+
+ <pre>
+% <input>erl -heart -env HEART_NO_KILL 1 ...</input></pre>
+
<p>
Furthermore, <c><![CDATA[ERL_CRASH_DUMP_SECONDS]]></c> has the following behaviour on
<c>heart</c>: