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diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/kernel_app.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/kernel_app.xml index 9e6fb60bb7..e5ac031539 100644 --- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/kernel_app.xml +++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/kernel_app.xml @@ -4,14 +4,14 @@ <appref> <header> <copyright> - <year>1996</year><year>2016</year> + <year>1996</year><year>2017</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at - + http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. - + </legalnotice> <title>kernel</title> @@ -31,12 +31,12 @@ <app>kernel</app> <appsummary>The Kernel application.</appsummary> <description> - <p>The <c>Kernel</c> application has all the code necessary to run + <p>The Kernel application has all the code necessary to run the Erlang runtime system: file servers, code servers, and so on.</p> - <p>The <c>Kernel</c> application is the first application started. It is + <p>The Kernel application is the first application started. It is mandatory in the sense that the minimal system based on - Erlang/OTP consists of <c>Kernel</c> and <c>STDLIB</c>. <c>Kernel</c> + Erlang/OTP consists of Kernel and STDLIB. Kernel contains the following functional areas:</p> <list type="bulleted"> <item>Start, stop, supervision, configuration, and distribution of applications</item> @@ -53,13 +53,68 @@ <section> <title>Error Logger Event Handlers</title> <p>Two standard error logger event handlers are defined in - the <c>Kernel</c> application. These are described in + the Kernel application. These are described in <seealso marker="error_logger"><c>error_logger(3)</c></seealso>.</p> </section> <section> + <marker id="erl_signal_server"/> + <title>OS Signal Event Handler</title> + <p>Asynchronous OS signals may be subscribed to via the Kernel applications event manager + (see <seealso marker="doc/design_principles:des_princ">OTP Design Principles</seealso> and + <seealso marker="stdlib:gen_event"><c>gen_event(3)</c></seealso>) registered as <c>erl_signal_server</c>. + A default signal handler is installed which handles the following signals:</p> + <taglist> + <tag><c>sigusr1</c></tag> + <item><p>The default handler will halt Erlang and produce a crashdump + with slogan "Received SIGUSR1". + This is equivalent to calling <c>erlang:halt("Received SIGUSR1")</c>. + </p></item> + + <tag><c>sigquit</c></tag> + <item><p>The default handler will halt Erlang immediately. + This is equivalent to calling <c>erlang:halt()</c>. + </p></item> + + <tag><c>sigterm</c></tag> + <item><p>The default handler will terminate Erlang normally. + This is equivalent to calling <c>init:stop()</c>. + </p></item> + </taglist> + + <section> + <title>Events</title> + <p>Any event handler added to <c>erl_signal_server</c> must handle the following events.</p> + <taglist> + <tag><c>sighup</c></tag> + <item><p>Hangup detected on controlling terminal or death of controlling process</p></item> + <tag><c>sigquit</c></tag> + <item><p>Quit from keyboard</p></item> + <tag><c>sigabrt</c></tag> + <item><p>Abort signal from abort</p></item> + <tag><c>sigalrm</c></tag> + <item><p>Timer signal from alarm</p></item> + <tag><c>sigterm</c></tag> + <item><p>Termination signal</p></item> + <tag><c>sigusr1</c></tag> + <item><p>User-defined signal 1</p></item> + <tag><c>sigusr2</c></tag> + <item><p>User-defined signal 2</p></item> + <tag><c>sigchld</c></tag> + <item><p>Child process stopped or terminated</p></item> + <tag><c>sigstop</c></tag> + <item><p>Stop process</p></item> + <tag><c>sigtstp</c></tag> + <item><p>Stop typed at terminal</p></item> + </taglist> + + <p>Setting OS signals are described in <seealso marker="os#set_signal/2"><c>os:set_signal/2</c></seealso>.</p> + </section> + </section> + + <section> <title>Configuration</title> - <p>The following configuration parameters are defined for the <c>Kernel</c> + <p>The following configuration parameters are defined for the Kernel application. For more information about configuration parameters, see file <seealso marker="app"><c>app(4)</c></seealso>.</p> <taglist> @@ -131,7 +186,7 @@ <tag><c>{file, FileName}</c></tag> <item><p>Installs the standard event handler, which prints error reports to file <c>FileName</c>, where <c>FileName</c> - is a string.</p></item> + is a string. The file is opened with encoding UTF-8.</p></item> <tag><c>false</c></tag> <item> <p>No standard event handler is installed, but @@ -162,8 +217,8 @@ depth to which terms are printed by the error logger event handlers included in OTP. This configuration parameter is used by the two event handlers - defined by the <c>Kernel</c> application and the two event - handlers in the <c>SASL</c> application. + defined by the Kernel application and the two event + handlers in the SASL application. (If you have implemented your own error handlers, this configuration parameter has no effect on them.)</p> @@ -173,7 +228,7 @@ <c>~P</c> and <c>~W</c>, respectively, and <c>Depth</c> is used as the depth parameter. For details, see <seealso marker="stdlib:io#format/2"><c>io:format/2</c></seealso> - in <c>STDLIB</c>.</p> + in STDLIB.</p> <note><p>A reasonable starting value for <c>Depth</c> is <c>30</c>. We recommend to test crashing various processes in your @@ -217,12 +272,14 @@ </item> <tag><c>{inet_dist_listen_options, Opts}</c></tag> <item> + <marker id="inet_dist_listen_options"></marker> <p>Defines a list of extra socket options to be used when opening the listening socket for a distributed Erlang node. See <seealso marker="gen_tcp#listen/2"><c>gen_tcp:listen/2</c></seealso>.</p> </item> <tag><c>{inet_dist_connect_options, Opts}</c></tag> <item> + <marker id="inet_dist_connect_options"></marker> <p>Defines a list of extra socket options to be used when connecting to other distributed Erlang nodes. See <seealso marker="gen_tcp#connect/4"><c>gen_tcp:connect/4</c></seealso>.</p> @@ -239,7 +296,7 @@ <p>The name (string) of an Inet user configuration file. For details, see section <seealso marker="erts:inet_cfg"><c>Inet Configuration</c></seealso> - in the <c>ERTS</c> User's Guide.</p> + in the ERTS User's Guide.</p> </item> <tag><c>net_setuptime = SetupTime</c></tag> <item> @@ -358,11 +415,34 @@ MaxT = TickTime + TickTime / 4</code> <tag><c>start_timer = true | false</c></tag> <item> <p>Starts the <c>timer_server</c> if the parameter is - <c>true</c> (see <seealso marker="stdlib:timer"><c>stdlib:timer(3)</c></seealso>). + <c>true</c> (see <seealso marker="stdlib:timer"><c>timer(3)</c></seealso>). This parameter is to be set to <c>true</c> in an embedded system using this service.</p> <p>Defaults to <c>false</c>.</p> </item> + <tag><c>shell_history = enabled | disabled </c></tag> + <item> + <p>Specifies whether shell history should be logged to disk + between usages of <c>erl</c>.</p> + </item> + <tag><c>shell_history_drop = [string()]</c></tag> + <item> + <p>Specific log lines that should not be persisted. For + example <c>["q().", "init:stop()."]</c> will allow to + ignore commands that shut the node down. Defaults to + <c>[]</c>.</p> + </item> + <tag><c>shell_history_file_bytes = integer()</c></tag> + <item> + <p>how many bytes the shell should remember. By default, the + value is set to 512kb, and the minimal value is 50kb.</p> + </item> + <tag><c>shell_history_path = string()</c></tag> + <item> + <p>Specifies where the shell history files will be stored. + defaults to the user's cache directory as returned by + <c>filename:basedir(user_cache, "erlang-history")</c>.</p> + </item> <tag><c>shutdown_func = {Mod, Func}</c></tag> <item> <p>Where:</p> @@ -377,6 +457,28 @@ MaxT = TickTime + TickTime / 4</code> return as soon as possible for <c>application_controller</c> to terminate properly.</p> </item> + <tag><c>source_search_rules = [DirRule] | [SuffixRule] </c></tag> + <item> + <marker id="source_search_rules"></marker> + <p>Where:</p> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item><c>DirRule = {ObjDirSuffix,SrcDirSuffix}</c></item> + <item><c>SuffixRule = {ObjSuffix,SrcSuffix,[DirRule]}</c></item> + <item><c>ObjDirSuffix = string()</c></item> + <item><c>SrcDirSuffix = string()</c></item> + <item><c>ObjSuffix = string()</c></item> + <item><c>SrcSuffix = string()</c></item> + </list> + <p>Specifies a list of rules for use by <c>filelib:find_file/2</c> and + <c>filelib:find_source/2</c>. If this is set to some other value + than the empty list, it replaces the default rules. Rules can be + simple pairs of directory suffixes, such as <c>{"ebin", + "src"}</c>, which are used by <c>filelib:find_file/2</c>, or + triples specifying separate directory suffix rules depending on + file name extensions, for example <c>[{".beam", ".erl", [{"ebin", + "src"}]}</c>, which are used by <c>filelib:find_source/2</c>. Both + kinds of rules can be mixed in the list.</p> + </item> </taglist> </section> @@ -403,4 +505,3 @@ MaxT = TickTime + TickTime / 4</code> <seealso marker="stdlib:timer"><c>timer(3)</c></seealso></p> </section> </appref> - |