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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1996</year><year>2011</year>
+ <year>1996</year><year>2012</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -71,6 +71,39 @@
timeout and try to reboot the system. This can happen, for
example, if the system clock is adjusted automatically by use of
NTP (Network Time Protocol).</p>
+
+ <p> If a crash occurs, an <c><![CDATA[erl_crash.dump]]></c> will <em>not</em> be written
+ unless the environment variable <c><![CDATA[ERL_CRASH_DUMP_SECONDS]]></c> is set.
+ </p>
+
+ <pre>
+% <input>erl -heart -env ERL_CRASH_DUMP_SECONDS 10 ...</input></pre>
+ <p>
+ Furthermore, <c><![CDATA[ERL_CRASH_DUMP_SECONDS]]></c> has the following behaviour on
+ <c>heart</c>:
+ </p>
+ <taglist>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[ERL_CRASH_DUMP_SECONDS=0]]></c></tag>
+ <item><p>
+ Suppresses the writing a crash dump file entirely,
+ thus rebooting the runtime system immediately.
+ This is the same as not setting the environment variable.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[ERL_CRASH_DUMP_SECONDS=-1]]></c></tag>
+ <item><p> Setting the environment variable to a negative value will not reboot
+ the runtime system until the crash dump file has been completly written.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c><![CDATA[ERL_CRASH_DUMP_SECONDS=S]]></c></tag>
+ <item><p>
+ Heart will wait for <c>S</c> seconds to let the crash dump file be written.
+ After <c>S</c> seconds <c>heart</c> will reboot the runtime system regardless of
+ the crash dump file has been written or not.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+ </taglist>
+
<p>In the following descriptions, all function fails with reason
<c>badarg</c> if <c>heart</c> is not started.</p>
</description>