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-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/app.xml6
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/application.xml6
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/auth.xml4
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/code.xml79
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/config.xml6
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/disk_log.xml27
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/erl_boot_server.xml4
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/erl_ddll.xml6
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/error_logger.xml65
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml36
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/gen_tcp.xml31
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/gen_udp.xml6
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/heart.xml19
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml89
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/init_stub.xml2
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/kernel_app.xml131
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/net_kernel.xml63
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/notes.xml344
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/os.xml34
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/rpc.xml20
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/seq_trace.xml12
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/zlib_stub.xml2
22 files changed, 829 insertions, 163 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/app.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/app.xml
index 5e0da409a3..d2e9390d7e 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/app.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/app.xml
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ ApplicationVersion = string()</code>
application is allowed to be started. <c>systools</c> uses
this list to generate correct start scripts. Defaults to
the empty list, but notice that all applications have
- dependencies to (at least) <c>Kernel</c> and <c>STDLIB</c>.</p>
+ dependencies to (at least) Kernel and STDLIB.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>env</c></tag>
<item>
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ ApplicationVersion = string()</code>
implemented as a supervision tree, otherwise the application
controller does not know how to start it. <c>mod</c>
can be omitted for applications without processes, typically
- code libraries, for example, <c>STDLIB</c>.</p>
+ code libraries, for example, STDLIB.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>start_phases</c></tag>
<item>
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ ApplicationVersion = string()</code>
<section>
<title>See Also</title>
<p><seealso marker="application"><c>application(3)</c></seealso>,
- <seealso marker="sasl:systools"><c>sasl:systools(3)</c></seealso></p>
+ <seealso marker="sasl:systools"><c>systools(3)</c></seealso></p>
</section>
</fileref>
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/application.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/application.xml
index 8d33aa86e7..886286b76d 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/application.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/application.xml
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@
<seealso marker="app"><c>app(4)</c></seealso>.</p>
<p>If <c><anno>Distributed</anno> == {<anno>Application</anno>,[<anno>Time</anno>,]<anno>Nodes</anno>}</c>,
the application becomes distributed. The argument overrides
- the value for the application in the <c>Kernel</c> configuration
+ the value for the application in the Kernel configuration
parameter <c>distributed</c>. <c><anno>Application</anno></c> must be
the application name (same as in the first argument).
If a node crashes and <c><anno>Time</anno></c> is specified,
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ Nodes = [cp1@cave, {cp2@cave, cp3@cave}]</code>
the application is to be started at <c>cp2@cave</c>
or <c>cp3@cave</c>.</p>
<p>If <c>Distributed == default</c>, the value for
- the application in the <c>Kernel</c> configuration parameter
+ the application in the Kernel configuration parameter
<c>distributed</c> is used.</p>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ Nodes = [cp1@cave, {cp2@cave, cp3@cave}]</code>
started, <c>Application</c> is started as well.</p>
<p>By default, all applications are loaded with permission
<c>true</c> on all nodes. The permission can be configured
- using the <c>Kernel</c> configuration parameter <c>permissions</c>.</p>
+ using the Kernel configuration parameter <c>permissions</c>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/auth.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/auth.xml
index 03f983b96d..5901446960 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/auth.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/auth.xml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
<desc>
<p>Use
<seealso marker="erts:erlang#erlang:get_cookie/0"><c>erlang:get_cookie()</c></seealso>
- in <c>ERTS</c> instead.</p>
+ in ERTS instead.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
<desc>
<p>Use
<seealso marker="erts:erlang#erlang:set_cookie/2"><c>erlang:set_cookie(node(), <anno>Cookie</anno>)</c>
- in <c>ERTS</c></seealso> instead.</p>
+ in ERTS</seealso> instead.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/code.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/code.xml
index d3611d6a03..c94f612c01 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/code.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/code.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1996</year><year>2016</year>
+ <year>1996</year><year>2017</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -86,11 +86,11 @@
an <c>ebin</c> directory are ignored.</p>
<p>All application directories found in the additional directories
appears before the standard OTP applications, except for the
- <c>Kernel</c> and <c>STDLIB</c> applications, which are placed before
+ Kernel and STDLIB applications, which are placed before
any additional applications. In other words, modules found in any
of the additional library directories override modules with
- the same name in OTP, except for modules in <c>Kernel</c> and
- <c>STDLIB</c>.</p>
+ the same name in OTP, except for modules in Kernel and
+ STDLIB.</p>
<p>Environment variable <c>ERL_LIBS</c> (if defined) is to contain
a colon-separated (for Unix-like systems) or semicolon-separated
(for Windows) list of additional libraries.</p>
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ zip:create("mnesia-4.4.7.ez",
<c>$OTPROOT/lib/mnesia.ez/mnesia/ebin</c> or
<c>$OTPROOT/lib/mnesia-4.4.7.ez/mnesia-4.4.7/ebin</c>.</p>
- <p>The code server uses module <c>erl_prim_loader</c> in <c>ERTS</c>
+ <p>The code server uses module <c>erl_prim_loader</c> in ERTS
(possibly through <c>erl_boot_server</c>) to read code files from
archives. However, the functions in <c>erl_prim_loader</c> can also be
used by other applications to read files from archives. For
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ zip:create("mnesia-4.4.7.ez",
both strings and atoms, but a future release will probably only allow
the arguments that are documented.</p>
- <p>As from Erlang/OTP R12B, functions in this module generally fail with an
+ <p>Functions in this module generally fail with an
exception if they are passed an incorrect type (for example, an integer or a tuple
where an atom is expected). An error tuple is returned if the argument type
is correct, but there are some other errors (for example, a non-existing directory
@@ -382,9 +382,14 @@ zip:create("mnesia-4.4.7.ez",
<name name="add_pathsa" arity="1"/>
<fsummary>Add directories to the beginning of the code path.</fsummary>
<desc>
- <p>Adds the directories in <c><anno>Dirs</anno></c> to the beginning of
- the code path. If a <c><anno>Dir</anno></c> exists, it is removed
- from the old position in the code path.</p>
+ <p>Traverses <c><anno>Dirs</anno></c> and adds
+ each <c><anno>Dir</anno></c> to the beginning of the code
+ path. This means that the order of <c><anno>Dirs</anno></c>
+ is reversed in the resulting code path. For example, if you
+ add <c>[Dir1,Dir2]</c>, the resulting path will
+ be <c>[Dir2,Dir1|OldCodePath]</c>.</p>
+ <p>If a <c><anno>Dir</anno></c> already exists in the code
+ path, it is removed from the old position.</p>
<p>Always returns <c>ok</c>, regardless of the validity of each
individual <c><anno>Dir</anno></c>.</p>
</desc>
@@ -651,6 +656,11 @@ ok = code:finish_loading(Prepared),
<p>Purges the code for <c><anno>Module</anno></c>, that is, removes code
marked as old. If some processes still linger in the old code,
these processes are killed before the code is removed.</p>
+ <note><p>As of ERTS version 9.0, a process is only considered
+ to be lingering in the code if it has direct references to the code.
+ For more information see documentation of
+ <seealso marker="erts:erlang#check_process_code/3"><c>erlang:check_process_code/3</c></seealso>,
+ which is used in order to determine this.</p></note>
<p>Returns <c>true</c> if successful and any process is needed to
be killed, otherwise <c>false</c>.</p>
</desc>
@@ -661,6 +671,11 @@ ok = code:finish_loading(Prepared),
<desc>
<p>Purges the code for <c><anno>Module</anno></c>, that is, removes code
marked as old, but only if no processes linger in it.</p>
+ <note><p>As of ERTS version 9.0, a process is only considered
+ to be lingering in the code if it has direct references to the code.
+ For more information see documentation of
+ <seealso marker="erts:erlang#check_process_code/3"><c>erlang:check_process_code/3</c></seealso>,
+ which is used in order to determine this.</p></note>
<p>Returns <c>false</c> if the module cannot be purged because
of processes lingering in old code, otherwise <c>true</c>.</p>
</desc>
@@ -678,9 +693,9 @@ ok = code:finish_loading(Prepared),
<p>Normally, <c><anno>Loaded</anno></c> is the absolute filename
<c>Filename</c> from which the code is obtained. If the module
is preloaded (see
- <seealso marker="sasl:script"><c>sasl:script(4)</c></seealso>),
+ <seealso marker="sasl:script"><c>script(4)</c></seealso>),
<c>Loaded==preloaded</c>. If the module is Cover-compiled (see
- <seealso marker="tools:cover"><c>tools:cover(3)</c></seealso>),
+ <seealso marker="tools:cover"><c>cover(3)</c></seealso>),
<c>Loaded==cover_compiled</c>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -884,6 +899,48 @@ rpc:call(Node, code, load_binary, [Module, Filename, Binary]),
</desc>
</func>
<func>
+ <name name="module_status" arity="1"/>
+ <fsummary>Return the status of the module in relation to object file on disk.</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Returns:</p>
+ <taglist>
+ <tag><c>not_loaded</c></tag>
+ <item><p>If <c><anno>Module</anno></c> is not currently loaded.</p></item>
+ <tag><c>loaded</c></tag>
+ <item><p>If <c><anno>Module</anno></c> is loaded and the object file
+ exists and contains the same code.</p></item>
+ <tag><c>removed</c></tag>
+ <item><p>If <c><anno>Module</anno></c> is loaded but no
+ corresponding object file can be found in the code path.</p></item>
+ <tag><c>modified</c></tag>
+ <item><p>If <c><anno>Module</anno></c> is loaded but the object file
+ contains code with a different MD5 checksum.</p></item>
+ </taglist>
+ <p>Preloaded modules are always reported as <c>loaded</c>, without
+ inspecting the contents on disk. Cover compiled modules will always
+ be reported as <c>modified</c> if an object file exists, or as
+ <c>removed</c> otherwise. Modules whose load path is an empty string
+ (which is the convention for auto-generated code) will only be
+ reported as <c>loaded</c> or <c>not_loaded</c>.</p>
+ <p>For modules that have native code loaded (see
+ <seealso marker="#is_module_native/1"><c>is_module_native/1</c></seealso>),
+ the MD5 sum of the native code in the object file is used for the
+ comparison, if it exists; the Beam code in the file is ignored.
+ Reversely, for modules that do not currently have native code
+ loaded, any native code in the file will be ignored.</p>
+ <p>See also <seealso marker="#modified_modules/0"><c>modified_modules/0</c></seealso>.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+ <func>
+ <name name="modified_modules" arity="0"/>
+ <fsummary>Return a list of all modules modified on disk.</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Returns the list of all currently loaded modules for which
+ <seealso marker="#module_status/1"><c>module_status/1</c></seealso>
+ returns <c>modified</c>. See also <seealso marker="#all_loaded/0"><c>all_loaded/0</c></seealso>.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+ <func>
<name name="is_module_native" arity="1"/>
<fsummary>Test if a module has native code.</fsummary>
<desc>
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/config.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/config.xml
index c5f37fd036..fdb2d29f63 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/config.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/config.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<fileref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1997</year><year>2016</year>
+ <year>1997</year><year>2017</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@
to update the application configurations.</p>
<p>This means that specifying another <c>.config</c> file, or more
<c>.config</c> files, leads to inconsistent update of application
- configurations. Therefore, in Erlang 5.4/OTP R10B, the syntax of
- <c>sys.config</c> was extended to allow pointing out other
+ configurations. There is, however, a syntax for
+ <c>sys.config</c> that allows pointing out other
<c>.config</c> files:</p>
<code type="none">
[{Application, [{Par, Val}]} | File].</code>
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/disk_log.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/disk_log.xml
index 0b6ee1e6a5..1be28adfb8 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/disk_log.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/disk_log.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
<header>
<copyright>
<year>1997</year>
- <year>2016</year>
+ <year>2017</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
<taglist>
<tag>halt logs</tag>
<item><p>Appends items to a single file, which size can
- be limited by the disk log module.</p></item>
+ be limited by the <c>disk_log</c> module.</p></item>
<tag>wrap logs</tag>
<item><p>Uses a sequence of wrap log files of limited size. As a
wrap log file is filled up, further items are logged on to the next
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@
An item logged to an internally formatted log must not occupy more
than 4 GB of disk space (the size must fit in 4 bytes).</p></item>
<tag>external format</tag>
- <item><p>Leaves it up to the user to read the logged deep byte lists.
- The disk log module cannot repair externally formatted logs.</p></item>
+ <item><p>Leaves it up to the user to read and interpret the logged data.
+ The <c>disk_log</c> module cannot repair externally formatted logs.</p></item>
</taglist>
<p>For each open disk log, one process handles requests
@@ -109,8 +109,7 @@
These functions log one or more Erlang terms.
By prefixing each of the functions with a <c>b</c> (for "binary"),
we get the corresponding <c>blog()</c> functions for the external format.
- These functions log one or more deep lists of bytes or, alternatively,
- binaries of deep lists of bytes.
+ These functions log one or more chunks of bytes.
For example, to log the string <c>"hello"</c> in ASCII format, you
can use <c>disk_log:blog(Log, "hello")</c>, or
<c>disk_log:blog(Log, list_to_binary("hello"))</c>. The two
@@ -219,9 +218,6 @@
<name name="dlog_head_opt"/>
</datatype>
<datatype>
- <name name="dlog_byte"/>
- </datatype>
- <datatype>
<name name="dlog_mode"/>
</datatype>
<datatype>
@@ -234,9 +230,6 @@
</desc>
</datatype>
<datatype>
- <name name="bytes"/>
- </datatype>
- <datatype>
<name name="invalid_header"/>
</datatype>
<datatype>
@@ -953,7 +946,7 @@
written first on the log file. If the log is a wrap
log, the item <c><anno>Head</anno></c> is written first in each new file.
<c><anno>Head</anno></c> is to be a term if the format is
- <c>internal</c>, otherwise a deep list of bytes (or a binary).
+ <c>internal</c>, otherwise a sequence of bytes.
Defaults to <c>none</c>, which means that
no header is written first on the file.
</p>
@@ -965,7 +958,7 @@
The call <c>M:F(A)</c> is assumed to return <c>{ok, Head}</c>.
The item <c>Head</c> is written first in each file.
<c>Head</c> is to be a term if the format is
- <c>internal</c>, otherwise a deep list of bytes (or a binary).
+ <c>internal</c>, otherwise a sequence of bytes.
</p>
</item>
<tag><c>{mode, <anno>Mode</anno>}</c></tag>
@@ -975,6 +968,12 @@
<c>read_write</c>.
</p>
</item>
+ <tag><c>{quiet, Boolean}</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Specifies if messages will be sent to
+ <c>error_logger</c> on recoverable errors with
+ the log files. Defaults to <c>true</c>.</p>
+ </item>
</taglist>
<p><c>open/1</c> returns <c>{ok, <anno>Log</anno>}</c> if the
log file is successfully opened. If the file is
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/erl_boot_server.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/erl_boot_server.xml
index 897365f9b9..4109251387 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/erl_boot_server.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/erl_boot_server.xml
@@ -38,13 +38,13 @@
command-line flag <c>-loader inet</c>. All hosts specified
with command-line flag <c>-hosts Host</c> must have one
instance of this server running.</p>
- <p>This server can be started with the <c>Kernel</c> configuration
+ <p>This server can be started with the Kernel configuration
parameter <c>start_boot_server</c>.</p>
<p>The <c>erl_boot_server</c> can read regular files and
files in archives. See <seealso marker="code"><c>code(3)</c></seealso>
and
<seealso marker="erts:erl_prim_loader"><c>erl_prim_loader(3)</c></seealso>
- in <c>ERTS</c>.</p>
+ in ERTS.</p>
<warning><p>The support for loading code from archive files is
experimental. It is released before it is ready
to obtain early feedback. The file format, semantics,
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/erl_ddll.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/erl_ddll.xml
index a5ce58ef3e..75114e015c 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/erl_ddll.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/erl_ddll.xml
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@
<desc>
<p>Removes a driver monitor in much the same way as
<seealso marker="erts:erlang#erlang:demonitor/1"><c>erlang:demonitor/1</c></seealso>
- in <c>ERTS</c>
+ in ERTS
does with process monitors. For details about how to create
driver monitors, see
<seealso marker="#monitor/2"><c>monitor/2</c></seealso>,
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@
<p>Creates a driver monitor and works in many
ways as
<seealso marker="erts:erlang#erlang:monitor/2"><c>erlang:monitor/2</c></seealso>
- in <c>ERTS</c>,
+ in ERTS,
does for processes. When a driver changes state, the monitor
results in a monitor message that is sent to the calling
process. <c><anno>MonitorRef</anno></c> returned by this function is
@@ -745,7 +745,7 @@
<p>This parameter is the name of the driver
to be used in subsequent calls to function
<seealso marker="erts:erlang#open_port/2"><c>erlang:open_port</c></seealso>
- in <c>ERTS</c>.
+ in ERTS.
The name can be specified as an <c>iolist()</c> or
an <c>atom()</c>. The name specified when loading is used
to find the object file (with the help of <c><anno>Path</anno></c>
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/error_logger.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/error_logger.xml
index a8273e59e2..91bf57cb91 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/error_logger.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/error_logger.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1996</year><year>2016</year>
+ <year>1996</year><year>2017</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
<description>
<p>The Erlang <em>error logger</em> is an event manager (see
<seealso marker="doc/design_principles:des_princ">OTP Design Principles</seealso> and
- <seealso marker="stdlib:gen_event"><c>stdlib:gen_event(3)</c></seealso>),
+ <seealso marker="stdlib:gen_event"><c>gen_event(3)</c></seealso>),
registered as <c>error_logger</c>. Errors, warnings, and info events
are sent to the error logger from the Erlang runtime system and
the different Erlang/OTP applications. The events are, by default,
@@ -44,12 +44,12 @@
executing.</p>
<p>Initially, <c>error_logger</c> has only a primitive event
handler, which buffers and prints the raw event messages. During
- system startup, the <c>Kernel</c> application replaces this with a
+ system startup, the Kernel application replaces this with a
<em>standard event handler</em>, by default one that writes
- nicely formatted output to the terminal. <c>Kernel</c> can also be
+ nicely formatted output to the terminal. Kernel can also be
configured so that events are logged to a file instead, or not logged at all,
see <seealso marker="kernel_app"><c>kernel(6)</c></seealso>.</p>
- <p>Also the <c>SASL</c> application, if started, adds its own event
+ <p>Also the SASL application, if started, adds its own event
handler, which by default writes supervisor, crash, and progress
reports to the terminal. See
<seealso marker="sasl:sasl_app"><c>sasl(6)</c></seealso>.</p>
@@ -58,9 +58,9 @@
User-defined event handlers can be added to handle application-specific
events, see
<seealso marker="#add_report_handler/1"><c>add_report_handler/1,2</c></seealso>.
- Also, a useful event handler is provided in <c>STDLIB</c> for multi-file
+ Also, a useful event handler is provided in STDLIB for multi-file
logging of events, see
- <seealso marker="stdlib:log_mf_h"><c>stdlib:log_mf_h(3)</c></seealso>.</p>
+ <seealso marker="stdlib:log_mf_h"><c>log_mf_h(3)</c></seealso>.</p>
<p>Warning events were introduced in Erlang/OTP R9C and are enabled
by default as from Erlang/OTP 18.0. To retain backwards compatibility
with existing user-defined event handlers, the warning events can be
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
<p>Adds a new event handler to the error logger. The event
handler must be implemented as a <c>gen_event</c> callback
module, see
- <seealso marker="stdlib:gen_event"><c>stdlib:gen_event(3)</c></seealso>.</p>
+ <seealso marker="stdlib:gen_event"><c>gen_event(3)</c></seealso>.</p>
<p><c><anno>Handler</anno></c> is typically the name of the callback module
and <c><anno>Args</anno></c> is an optional term (defaults to []) passed
to the initialization callback function <c><anno>Handler</anno>:init/1</c>.
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
<desc>
<p>Deletes an event handler from the error logger by calling
<c>gen_event:delete_handler(error_logger, <anno>Handler</anno>, [])</c>,
- see <seealso marker="stdlib:gen_event"><c>stdlib:gen_event(3)</c></seealso>.</p>
+ see <seealso marker="stdlib:gen_event"><c>gen_event(3)</c></seealso>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
The <c><anno>Format</anno></c> and <c><anno>Data</anno></c> arguments
are the same as the arguments of
<seealso marker="stdlib:io#format/2"><c>io:format/2</c></seealso>
- in <c>STDLIB</c>.
+ in STDLIB.
The event is handled by the standard event handler.</p>
<p><em>Example:</em></p>
<pre>
@@ -126,6 +126,12 @@ ok</pre>
<seealso marker="#error_report/1"><c>error_report/1</c></seealso>
instead.</p>
</warning>
+ <warning>
+ <p>If the Unicode translation modifier (<c>t</c>) is used in
+ the format string, all error handlers must ensure that the
+ formatted output is correctly encoded for the I/O
+ device.</p>
+ </warning>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -163,6 +169,19 @@ ok</pre>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
+ <name name="get_format_depth" arity="0"/>
+ <fsummary>Get the value of the Kernel application variable
+ <c>error_logger_format_depth</c>.</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Returns <c>max(10, Depth)</c>, where <c>Depth</c> is the
+ value of
+ <seealso marker="kernel:kernel_app#error_logger_format_depth">
+ error_logger_format_depth</seealso>
+ in the Kernel application, if Depth is an integer. Otherwise,
+ <c>unlimited</c> is returned.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+ <func>
<name name="info_msg" arity="1"/>
<name name="info_msg" arity="2"/>
<fsummary>Send a standard information event to the error logger.</fsummary>
@@ -171,7 +190,7 @@ ok</pre>
The <c><anno>Format</anno></c> and <c><anno>Data</anno></c> arguments
are the same as the arguments of
<seealso marker="stdlib:io#format/2"><c>io:format/2</c></seealso>
- in <c>STDLIB</c>. The event is handled by the standard event handler.</p>
+ in STDLIB. The event is handled by the standard event handler.</p>
<p><em>Example:</em></p>
<pre>
1> <input>error_logger:info_msg("Something happened in ~p~n", [a_module]).</input>
@@ -184,6 +203,12 @@ ok</pre>
the standard event handler, meaning no further events are
logged. When in doubt, use <c>info_report/1</c> instead.</p>
</warning>
+ <warning>
+ <p>If the Unicode translation modifier (<c>t</c>) is used in
+ the format string, all error handlers must ensure that the
+ formatted output is correctly encoded for the I/O
+ device.</p>
+ </warning>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -235,7 +260,7 @@ ok</pre>
<p>Enables or disables printout of standard events to a file.</p>
<p>This is done by adding or deleting the standard event handler
for output to file. Thus, calling this function overrides
- the value of the <c>Kernel</c> <c>error_logger</c> configuration
+ the value of the Kernel <c>error_logger</c> configuration
parameter.</p>
<p>Enabling file logging can be used together with calling
<c>tty(false)</c>, to have a silent system where
@@ -249,7 +274,7 @@ ok</pre>
successful, or <c>{error, allready_have_logfile}</c> if
logging to file is already enabled, or an error tuple if
another error occurred (for example, if <c><anno>Filename</anno></c>
- cannot be opened).</p>
+ cannot be opened). The file is opened with encoding UTF-8.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>close</c></tag>
<item>
@@ -274,7 +299,7 @@ ok</pre>
to the terminal.</p>
<p>This is done by adding or deleting the standard event handler
for output to the terminal. Thus, calling this function overrides
- the value of the <c>Kernel</c> <c>error_logger</c> configuration parameter.</p>
+ the value of the Kernel <c>error_logger</c> configuration parameter.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -323,7 +348,7 @@ ok</pre>
The <c><anno>Format</anno></c> and <c><anno>Data</anno></c> arguments
are the same as the arguments of
<seealso marker="stdlib:io#format/2"><c>io:format/2</c></seealso>
- in <c>STDLIB</c>.
+ in STDLIB.
The event is handled by the standard event handler. It is tagged
as an error, warning, or info, see
<seealso marker="#warning_map/0"><c>warning_map/0</c></seealso>.</p>
@@ -332,6 +357,12 @@ ok</pre>
the standard event handler, meaning no further events are
logged. When in doubt, use <c>warning_report/1</c> instead.</p>
</warning>
+ <warning>
+ <p>If the Unicode translation modifier (<c>t</c>) is used in
+ the format string, all error handlers must ensure that the
+ formatted output is correctly encoded for the I/O
+ device.</p>
+ </warning>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -416,8 +447,8 @@ ok</pre>
</section>
<section>
<title>See Also</title>
- <p><seealso marker="stdlib:gen_event"><c>stdlib:gen_event(3)</c></seealso>,
- <seealso marker="stdlib:log_mf_h"><c>stdlib:log_mf_h(3)</c></seealso>
+ <p><seealso marker="stdlib:gen_event"><c>gen_event(3)</c></seealso>,
+ <seealso marker="stdlib:log_mf_h"><c>log_mf_h(3)</c></seealso>
<seealso marker="kernel_app"><c>kernel(6)</c></seealso>
<seealso marker="sasl:sasl_app"><c>sasl(6)</c></seealso></p>
</section>
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
index 7d86c3ebcb..b674b3ca93 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
<seealso marker="#list_dir_all"><c>list_dir_all/1</c></seealso> and
<seealso marker="#read_link_all"><c>read_link_all/1</c></seealso>.</p>
- <p>See also section <seealso marker="stdlib:unicode_usage#notes-about-raw-filenames">Notes About Raw Filenames</seealso> in the <c>STDLIB</c> User´s Giude.</p>
+ <p>See also section <seealso marker="stdlib:unicode_usage#notes-about-raw-filenames">Notes About Raw Filenames</seealso> in the STDLIB User's Guide.</p>
</description>
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}.
{ok,[{person,"kalle",25},{person,"pelle",30}]}</pre>
<p>The encoding of <c><anno>Filename</anno></c> can be set
by a comment, as described in
- <seealso marker="stdlib:epp#encoding"><c>stdlib:epp(3)</c></seealso>.</p>
+ <seealso marker="stdlib:epp#encoding"><c>epp(3)</c></seealso>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}.
</taglist>
<p>The encoding of <c><anno>Filename</anno></c> can be set
by a comment, as described in
- <seealso marker="stdlib:epp#encoding"><c>stdlib:epp(3)</c></seealso>.</p>
+ <seealso marker="stdlib:epp#encoding"><c>epp(3)</c></seealso>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}.
<p>The same as <c>eval/1</c>, but the variable bindings
<c><anno>Bindings</anno></c> are used in the evaluation. For information
about the variable bindings, see
- <seealso marker="stdlib:erl_eval"><c>stdlib:erl_eval(3)</c></seealso>.</p>
+ <seealso marker="stdlib:erl_eval"><c>erl_eval(3)</c></seealso>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}.
this module (<c>file</c>) for reading and writing data as the interfaces
provided here work with byte-oriented data. Using other (Unicode)
encodings makes the
- <seealso marker="stdlib:io"><c>stdlib:io(3)</c></seealso> functions
+ <seealso marker="stdlib:io"><c>io(3)</c></seealso> functions
<c>get_chars</c>, <c>get_line</c>, and <c>put_chars</c> more suitable,
as they can work with the full Unicode range.</p>
<p>If data is sent to an <c>io_device()</c> in a format that cannot be
@@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}.
that is,
<seealso marker="#read/2"><c>read/2</c></seealso> are
returned "as is". If module
- <seealso marker="stdlib:io"><c>stdlib:io(3)</c></seealso> is used for
+ <seealso marker="stdlib:io"><c>io(3)</c></seealso> is used for
writing, the file can only cope with Unicode characters up to code point
255 (the ISO Latin-1 range).</p>
</item>
@@ -861,7 +861,7 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}.
the file lies beyond the ISO Latin-1 range (0..255), but failure occurs
if the data contains Unicode code points beyond that range. The file is
best read with the functions in the Unicode aware module
- <seealso marker="stdlib:io"><c>stdlib:io(3)</c></seealso>.</p>
+ <seealso marker="stdlib:io"><c>io(3)</c></seealso>.</p>
<p>Bytes written to the file by any means are translated to UTF-8 encoding
before being stored on the disk file.</p>
</item>
@@ -891,7 +891,7 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}.
So a file can be analyzed in latin1 encoding for, for example, a BOM,
positioned beyond the BOM and then be set for the right encoding before
further reading. For functions identifying BOMs, see module
- <seealso marker="stdlib:unicode"><c>stdlib:unicode(3)</c></seealso>. </p>
+ <seealso marker="stdlib:unicode"><c>unicode(3)</c></seealso>. </p>
<p>This option is not allowed on <c>raw</c> files.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>ram</c></tag>
@@ -932,7 +932,7 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}.
closed and the process itself is terminated.
An <c><anno>IoDevice</anno></c> returned from this call can be used
as an argument to the I/O functions (see
- <seealso marker="stdlib:io"><c>stdlib:io(3)</c></seealso>).</p>
+ <seealso marker="stdlib:io"><c>io(3)</c></seealso>).</p>
<note>
<p>In previous versions of <c>file</c>, modes were specified
as one of the atoms <c>read</c>, <c>write</c>, or
@@ -1055,7 +1055,7 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}.
</taglist>
<p>The encoding of <c><anno>Filename</anno></c> can be set
by a comment as described in
- <seealso marker="stdlib:epp#encoding"><c>stdlib:epp(3)</c></seealso>.</p>
+ <seealso marker="stdlib:epp#encoding"><c>epp(3)</c></seealso>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}.
</taglist>
<p>The encoding of <c><anno>Filename</anno></c> can be set
by a comment as described in
- <seealso marker="stdlib:epp#encoding"><c>stdlib:epp(3)</c></seealso>.</p>
+ <seealso marker="stdlib:epp#encoding"><c>epp(3)</c></seealso>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -1389,7 +1389,7 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}.
<c>{ok, <anno>FileInfo</anno>}</c> if successful, otherwise
<c>{error, <anno>Reason</anno>}</c>. <c><anno>FileInfo</anno></c>
is a record
- <c>file_info</c>, defined in the <c>Kernel</c> include file
+ <c>file_info</c>, defined in the Kernel include file
<c>file.hrl</c>. Include the following directive in the module
from which the function is called:</p>
<code type="none">
@@ -1477,8 +1477,8 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}.
<tag><c>16#400</c></tag>
<item><p>set group id on execution</p></item>
</taglist>
- <p>On Unix platforms, the following bits
- can also be set:</p>
+ <p>On Unix platforms, other bits than those listed above
+ may be set.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>links = integer() >= 0</c></tag>
<item>
@@ -1552,7 +1552,7 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}.
raw line-oriented reading.</p>
<p>If <c>encoding</c> is set to something else than <c>latin1</c>, the
<c>read_line/1</c> call fails if the data contains characters larger than 255,
- why module <seealso marker="stdlib:io"><c>stdlib:io(3)</c></seealso> is to be
+ why module <seealso marker="stdlib:io"><c>io(3)</c></seealso> is to be
preferred when reading such a file.</p>
<p>The function returns:</p>
<taglist>
@@ -1970,7 +1970,7 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}.
<p>Changes file information. Returns <c>ok</c> if successful,
otherwise <c>{error, <anno>Reason</anno>}</c>.
<c><anno>FileInfo</anno></c> is a record
- <c>file_info</c>, defined in the <c>Kernel</c> include file
+ <c>file_info</c>, defined in the Kernel include file
<c>file.hrl</c>. Include the following directive in the module
from which the function is called:</p>
<code type="none">
@@ -2042,8 +2042,8 @@ f.txt: {person, "kalle", 25}.
<tag><c>16#400</c></tag>
<item><p>Set group id on execution</p></item>
</taglist>
- <p>On Unix platforms, the following bits
- can also be set.</p>
+ <p>On Unix platforms, other bits than those listed above
+ may be set.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>uid = integer() >= 0</c></tag>
<item>
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/gen_tcp.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/gen_tcp.xml
index 83242c2df8..070782e1f3 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/gen_tcp.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/gen_tcp.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1997</year><year>2016</year>
+ <year>1997</year><year>2017</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -140,6 +140,23 @@ do_recv(Sock, Bs) ->
<fsummary>Close a TCP socket.</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Closes a TCP socket.</p>
+ <p>Note that in most implementations of TCP, doing a <c>close</c> does
+ not guarantee that any data sent is delivered to the recipient before
+ the close is detected at the remote side. If you want to guarantee
+ delivery of the data to the recipient there are two common ways to
+ achieve this.</p>
+ <list type="ordered">
+ <item><p>Use <seealso marker="#shutdown/2">
+ <c>gen_tcp:shutdown(Sock, write)</c></seealso> to signal that
+ no more data is to be sent and wait for the read side of the
+ socket to be closed.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item><p>Use the socket option <seealso marker="inet#packet">
+ <c>{packet, N}</c></seealso> (or something similar) to make
+ it possible for the receiver to close the connection when it
+ knowns it has received all the data.</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -216,7 +233,7 @@ do_recv(Sock, Bs) ->
time-out in milliseconds. Defaults to <c>infinity</c>.</p>
<note>
<p>The default values for options specified to <c>connect</c> can
- be affected by the <c>Kernel</c> configuration parameter
+ be affected by the Kernel configuration parameter
<c>inet_default_connect_options</c>. For details, see
<seealso marker="inet"><c>inet(3)</c></seealso>.</p>
</note>
@@ -231,7 +248,11 @@ do_recv(Sock, Bs) ->
<c><anno>Socket</anno></c>. The controlling process is the process
that receives messages from the socket. If called by any other
process than the current controlling process,
- <c>{error, not_owner}</c> is returned.</p>
+ <c>{error, not_owner}</c> is returned. If the process identified
+ by <c><anno>Pid</anno></c> is not an existing local pid,
+ <c>{error, badarg}</c> is returned. <c>{error, badarg}</c> may also
+ be returned in some cases when <c><anno>Socket</anno></c> is closed
+ during the execution of this function.</p>
<p>If the socket is set in active mode, this function
will transfer any messages in the mailbox of the caller
to the new controlling process.
@@ -293,7 +314,7 @@ do_recv(Sock, Bs) ->
<seealso marker="#accept/1"><c>accept/1,2</c></seealso>.</p>
<note>
<p>The default values for options specified to <c>listen</c> can
- be affected by the <c>Kernel</c> configuration parameter
+ be affected by the Kernel configuration parameter
<c>inet_default_listen_options</c>. For details, see
<seealso marker="inet"><c>inet(3)</c></seealso>.</p>
</note>
@@ -307,7 +328,7 @@ do_recv(Sock, Bs) ->
<type_desc variable="HttpPacket">See the description of
<c>HttpPacket</c> in
<seealso marker="erts:erlang#decode_packet/3"><c>erlang:decode_packet/3</c></seealso>
- in <c>ERTS</c>.
+ in ERTS.
</type_desc>
<desc>
<p>Receives a packet from a socket in passive
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/gen_udp.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/gen_udp.xml
index 3f88a0272d..f79566ef71 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/gen_udp.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/gen_udp.xml
@@ -68,7 +68,11 @@
<c><anno>Socket</anno></c>. The controlling process is the process
that receives messages from the socket. If called by any other
process than the current controlling process,
- <c>{error, not_owner}</c> is returned.</p>
+ <c>{error, not_owner}</c> is returned. If the process identified
+ by <c><anno>Pid</anno></c> is not an existing local pid,
+ <c>{error, badarg}</c> is returned. <c>{error, badarg}</c> may also
+ be returned in some cases when <c><anno>Socket</anno></c> is closed
+ during the execution of this function.</p>
</desc>
</func>
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/heart.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/heart.xml
index 864f8facac..5b5b71e521 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/heart.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/heart.xml
@@ -37,10 +37,7 @@
the <c>heart</c> port program is to check that the Erlang runtime system
it is supervising is still running. If the port program has not
received any heartbeats within <c>HEART_BEAT_TIMEOUT</c> seconds
- (defaults to 60 seconds), the system can be rebooted. Also, if
- the system is equipped with a hardware watchdog timer and is
- running Solaris, the watchdog can be used to supervise the entire
- system.</p>
+ (defaults to 60 seconds), the system can be rebooted.</p>
<p>An Erlang runtime system to be monitored by a heart program
is to be started with command-line flag <c>-heart</c> (see
also <seealso marker="erts:erl"><c>erl(1)</c></seealso>).
@@ -51,17 +48,13 @@
or a terminated Erlang runtime system, environment variable
<c>HEART_COMMAND</c> must be set before the system is started.
If this variable is not set, a warning text is printed but
- the system does not reboot. However, if the hardware watchdog is
- used, it still triggers a reboot <c>HEART_BEAT_BOOT_DELAY</c>
- seconds later (defaults to 60 seconds).</p>
+ the system does not reboot.</p>
<p>To reboot on Windows, <c>HEART_COMMAND</c> can be
set to <c>heart -shutdown</c> (included in the Erlang delivery)
or to any other suitable program that can activate a reboot.</p>
- <p>The hardware watchdog is not started under Solaris if
- environment variable <c>HW_WD_DISABLE</c> is set.</p>
- <p>The environment variables <c>HEART_BEAT_TIMEOUT</c> and
- <c>HEART_BEAT_BOOT_DELAY</c> can be used to configure the heart
- time-outs; they can be set in the operating system shell before Erlang
+ <p>The environment variable <c>HEART_BEAT_TIMEOUT</c>
+ can be used to configure the heart
+ time-outs; it can be set in the operating system shell before Erlang
is started or be specified at the command line:</p>
<pre>
% <input>erl -heart -env HEART_BEAT_TIMEOUT 30 ...</input></pre>
@@ -83,7 +76,7 @@
<c><![CDATA[SIGKILL]]></c>:</p>
<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
+ <p> If heart should <em>not</em> kill the Erlang runtime system, this can be indicated
using the environment variable <c><![CDATA[HEART_NO_KILL=TRUE]]></c>.
This can be useful if the command executed by heart takes care of this,
for example as part of a specific cleanup sequence.
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml
index c0dce2f50c..b71e8a1e5d 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1997</year><year>2016</year>
+ <year>1997</year><year>2017</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
<seealso marker="erts:inet_cfg">ERTS User's Guide:
Inet Configuration</seealso> for more information about how to
configure an Erlang runtime system for IP communication.</p>
- <p>The following two <c>Kernel</c> configuration parameters affect the
+ <p>The following two Kernel configuration parameters affect the
behavior of all sockets opened on an Erlang node:</p>
<list type="bulleted">
<item><p><c>inet_default_connect_options</c> can contain a list of
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
<p>When <c>accept</c> is issued, the values of the listening socket options
are inherited. No such application variable is therefore needed for
<c>accept</c>.</p>
- <p>Using the <c>Kernel</c> configuration parameters above, one
+ <p>Using the Kernel configuration parameters above, one
can set default options for all TCP sockets on a node, but use this
with care. Options such as <c>{delay_send,true}</c> can be
specified in this way. The following is an example of starting an Erlang
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ Address ip_address()
------- ------------
::1 {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1}
::192.168.42.2 {0,0,0,0,0,0,(192 bsl 8) bor 168,(42 bsl 8) bor 2}
-FFFF::192.168.42.2
- {16#FFFF,0,0,0,0,0,(192 bsl 8) bor 168,(42 bsl 8) bor 2}
+::FFFF:192.168.42.2
+ {0,0,0,0,0,16#FFFF,(192 bsl 8) bor 168,(42 bsl 8) bor 2}
3ffe:b80:1f8d:2:204:acff:fe17:bf38
{16#3ffe,16#b80,16#1f8d,16#2,16#204,16#acff,16#fe17,16#bf38}
fe80::204:acff:fe17:bf38
@@ -87,15 +87,15 @@ fe80::204:acff:fe17:bf38
<pre>
1> <input>inet:parse_address("192.168.42.2").</input>
{ok,{192,168,42,2}}
-2> <input>inet:parse_address("FFFF::192.168.42.2").</input>
-{ok,{65535,0,0,0,0,0,49320,10754}}</pre>
+2> <input>inet:parse_address("::FFFF:192.168.42.2").</input>
+{ok,{0,0,0,0,0,65535,49320,10754}}</pre>
</description>
<datatypes>
<datatype>
<name name="hostent"/>
<desc>
- <p>The record is defined in the <c>Kernel</c> include file
+ <p>The record is defined in the Kernel include file
<c>"inet.hrl"</c>.</p>
<p>Add the following directive to the module:</p>
<code>
@@ -151,6 +151,12 @@ fe80::204:acff:fe17:bf38
<name name="socket_address"/>
</datatype>
<datatype>
+ <name name="socket_getopt"/>
+ </datatype>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="socket_setopt"/>
+ </datatype>
+ <datatype>
<name name="returned_non_ip_address"/>
<desc>
<p>
@@ -327,8 +333,6 @@ fe80::204:acff:fe17:bf38
<func>
<name name="getopts" arity="2"/>
<fsummary>Get one or more options for a socket.</fsummary>
- <type name="socket_getopt"/>
- <type name="socket_setopt"/>
<desc>
<p>Gets one or more options for a socket. For a list of available
options, see
@@ -387,7 +391,7 @@ get_tcpi_sacked(Sock) ->
<<_:28/binary,TcpiSacked:32/native,_/binary>> = Info,
TcpiSacked.]]></code>
<p>Preferably, you would check the machine type, the operating system,
- and the <c>Kernel</c> version before executing anything similar to
+ and the Kernel version before executing anything similar to
this code.</p>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -580,7 +584,6 @@ get_tcpi_sacked(Sock) ->
<func>
<name name="setopts" arity="2"/>
<fsummary>Set one or more options for a socket.</fsummary>
- <type name="socket_setopt"/>
<desc>
<p>Sets one or more options for a socket.</p>
<p>The following options are available:</p>
@@ -656,9 +659,10 @@ get_tcpi_sacked(Sock) ->
<tag><c>{buffer, Size}</c></tag>
<item>
<p>The size of the user-level software buffer used by
- the driver. Not to be confused with options <c>sndbuf</c>
+ the driver.
+ Not to be confused with options <c>sndbuf</c>
and <c>recbuf</c>, which correspond to the
- <c>Kernel</c> socket buffers. It is recommended
+ Kernel socket buffers. It is recommended
to have <c>val(buffer) &gt;= max(val(sndbuf),val(recbuf))</c> to
avoid performance issues because of unnecessary copying.
<c>val(buffer)</c> is automatically set to the above
@@ -667,6 +671,9 @@ get_tcpi_sacked(Sock) ->
usually become larger, you are encouraged to use
<seealso marker="#getopts/2"><c>getopts/2</c></seealso>
to analyze the behavior of your operating system.</p>
+ <p>Note that this is also the maximum amount of data that can be
+ received from a single recv call. If you are using higher than
+ normal MTU consider setting buffer higher.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>{delay_send, Boolean}</c></tag>
<item>
@@ -717,7 +724,7 @@ get_tcpi_sacked(Sock) ->
<p>The socket message queue is set to a busy
state when the amount of data on the message
queue reaches this limit. Notice that this limit only
- concerns data that has not yet reached the <c>ERTS</c> internal
+ concerns data that has not yet reached the ERTS internal
socket implementation. Defaults to 8 kB.</p>
<p>Senders of data to the socket are suspended if
either the socket message queue is busy or the socket
@@ -733,7 +740,7 @@ get_tcpi_sacked(Sock) ->
<tag><c>{high_watermark, Size}</c> (TCP/IP sockets)</tag>
<item>
<p>The socket is set to a busy state when the amount
- of data queued internally by the <c>ERTS</c> socket implementation
+ of data queued internally by the ERTS socket implementation
reaches this limit. Defaults to 8 kB.</p>
<p>Senders of data to the socket are suspended if
either the socket message queue is busy or the socket
@@ -813,7 +820,7 @@ get_tcpi_sacked(Sock) ->
socket message queue is set in a not busy state when
the amount of data queued in the message queue falls
below this limit. Notice that this limit only concerns data
- that has not yet reached the <c>ERTS</c> internal socket
+ that has not yet reached the ERTS internal socket
implementation. Defaults to 4 kB.</p>
<p>Senders that are suspended because of either a
busy message queue or a busy socket are resumed
@@ -831,7 +838,7 @@ get_tcpi_sacked(Sock) ->
<item>
<p>If the socket is in a busy state, the socket is
set in a not busy state when the amount of data
- queued internally by the <c>ERTS</c> socket implementation
+ queued internally by the ERTS socket implementation
falls below this limit. Defaults to 4 kB.</p>
<p>Senders that are suspended because of a
busy message queue or a busy socket are resumed
@@ -890,6 +897,32 @@ setcap cap_sys_admin,cap_sys_ptrace,cap_dac_read_search+epi beam.smp</code>
<seealso marker="file#native_name_encoding/0"><c>file:native_name_encoding/0</c></seealso>.</p></item>
</list>
</item>
+ <tag><c>{bind_to_device, Ifname :: binary()}</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Binds a socket to a specific network interface. This option
+ must be used in a function call that creates a socket, that is,
+ <seealso marker="gen_tcp#connect/3"><c>gen_tcp:connect/3,4</c></seealso>,
+ <seealso marker="gen_tcp#listen/2"><c>gen_tcp:listen/2</c></seealso>,
+ <seealso marker="gen_udp#open/1"><c>gen_udp:open/1,2</c></seealso>, or
+ <seealso marker="gen_sctp#open/0"><c>gen_sctp:open/0,1,2</c></seealso>.</p>
+ <p>Unlike <seealso marker="#getifaddrs/0"><c>getifaddrs/0</c></seealso>, Ifname
+ is encoded a binary. In the unlikely case that a system is using
+ non-7-bit-ASCII characters in network device names, special care
+ has to be taken when encoding this argument.</p>
+ <p>This option uses the Linux-specific socket option
+ <c>SO_BINDTODEVICE</c>, such as in Linux kernel 2.0.30 or later,
+ and therefore only exists when the runtime system
+ is compiled for such an operating system.</p>
+ <p>Before Linux 3.8, this socket option could be set, but could not retrieved
+ with <seealso marker="#getopts/2"><c>getopts/2</c></seealso>. Since Linux 3.8,
+ it is readable.</p>
+ <p>The virtual machine also needs elevated privileges, either
+ running as superuser or (for Linux) having capability
+ <c>CAP_NET_RAW</c>.</p>
+ <p>The primary use case for this option is to bind sockets into
+ <url href="http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt">Linux VRF instances</url>.
+ </p>
+ </item>
<tag><c>list</c></tag>
<item>
<p>Received <c>Packet</c> is delivered as a list.</p>
@@ -906,7 +939,7 @@ setcap cap_sys_admin,cap_sys_ptrace,cap_dac_read_search+epi beam.smp</code>
</item>
<tag><c>{packet, PacketType}</c>(TCP/IP sockets)</tag>
<item>
- <p>Defines the type of packets to use for a socket.
+ <p><marker id="packet"/>Defines the type of packets to use for a socket.
Possible values:</p>
<taglist>
<tag><c>raw | 0</c></tag>
@@ -951,7 +984,7 @@ setcap cap_sys_admin,cap_sys_ptrace,cap_dac_read_search+epi beam.smp</code>
are returned with the format according to <c>HttpPacket</c>
described in
<seealso marker="erts:erlang#decode_packet/3">
- <c>erlang:decode_packet/3</c></seealso> in <c>ERTS</c>.
+ <c>erlang:decode_packet/3</c></seealso> in ERTS.
A socket in passive
mode returns <c>{ok, HttpPacket}</c> from <c>gen_tcp:recv</c>
while an active socket sends messages like
@@ -984,11 +1017,6 @@ setcap cap_sys_admin,cap_sys_ptrace,cap_dac_read_search+epi beam.smp</code>
<p>Sets the line delimiting character for line-oriented protocols
(<c>line</c>). Defaults to <c>$\n</c>.</p>
</item>
- <tag><c>{priority, Priority}</c></tag>
- <item>
- <p>Sets the protocol-defined priority for all packets to be sent
- on this socket.</p>
- </item>
<tag><c>{raw, Protocol, OptionNum, ValueBin}</c></tag>
<item>
<p>See below.</p>
@@ -1089,6 +1117,15 @@ setcap cap_sys_admin,cap_sys_ptrace,cap_dac_read_search+epi beam.smp</code>
The option is ignored on platforms where it is not
implemented. Use with caution.</p>
</item>
+ <tag><c>{tclass, Integer}</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Sets <c>IPV6_TCLASS IP</c> level options on platforms
+ where this is implemented. The behavior and allowed range
+ varies between different systems.
+ The option is ignored on platforms where it is not
+ implemented. Use with caution.</p>
+ </item>
</taglist>
<p>In addition to these options, <em>raw</em>
option specifications can be used. The raw options are
@@ -1127,7 +1164,7 @@ inet:setopts(Sock,[{raw,6,8,<<30:32/native>>}]),]]></code>
can respond differently to this kind of option
manipulation. Use with care.</p>
<p>Notice that the default options for TCP/IP sockets can be
- changed with the <c>Kernel</c> configuration parameters mentioned in
+ changed with the Kernel configuration parameters mentioned in
the beginning of this manual page.</p>
</desc>
</func>
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/init_stub.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/init_stub.xml
index df89b174ca..1297c8264d 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/init_stub.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/init_stub.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,6 @@
<modulesummary>Coordination of system startup.</modulesummary>
<description>
<p>This module is moved to the
- <seealso marker="erts:init"><c>ERTS</c></seealso> application.</p>
+ <seealso marker="erts:init">ERTS</seealso> application.</p>
</description>
</erlref>
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>
-
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/net_kernel.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/net_kernel.xml
index f48a534d4f..0b94fc0fa6 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/net_kernel.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/net_kernel.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1996</year><year>2016</year>
+ <year>1996</year><year>2017</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ $ <input>erl -sname foobar</input></pre>
<seealso marker="erts:erl"><c>erl</c></seealso>.</p>
<p>Normally, connections are established automatically when
another node is referenced. This functionality can be disabled
- by setting <c>Kernel</c> configuration parameter
+ by setting Kernel configuration parameter
<c>dist_auto_connect</c> to <c>false</c>, see
<seealso marker="kernel_app"><c>kernel(6)</c></seealso>. In this case,
connections must be established explicitly by calling
@@ -64,6 +64,19 @@ $ <input>erl -sname foobar</input></pre>
by the magic cookie system, see section
<seealso marker="doc/reference_manual:distributed">Distributed Erlang</seealso>
in the Erlang Reference Manual.</p>
+ <warning>
+ <p>
+ Starting a distributed node without also specifying
+ <seealso marker="erts:erl#proto_dist"><c>-proto_dist inet_tls</c></seealso>
+ will expose the node to attacks that may give the attacker
+ complete access to the node and in extension the cluster.
+ When using un-secure distributed nodes, make sure that the
+ network is configured to keep potential attackers out.
+ See the <seealso marker="ssl:ssl_distribution">
+ Using SSL for Erlang Distribution</seealso> User's Guide
+ for details on how to setup a secure distributed node.
+ </p>
+ </warning>
</description>
<funcs>
@@ -116,6 +129,21 @@ $ <input>erl -sname foobar</input></pre>
</func>
<func>
+ <name name="getopts" arity="2"/>
+ <fsummary>Get distribution socket options.</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Get one or more options for the distribution socket
+ connected to <c><anno>Node</anno></c>.</p>
+ <p>If <c><anno>Node</anno></c> is a connected node
+ the return value is the same as from
+ <seealso marker="inet#getopts/2"><c>inet:getopts(Sock, Options)</c></seealso>
+ where <c>Sock</c> is the distribution socket for <c><anno>Node</anno></c>.</p>
+ <p>Returns <c>ignored</c> if the local node is not alive or
+ <c>{error, noconnection}</c> if <c><anno>Node</anno></c> is not connected.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+
+ <func>
<name name="monitor_nodes" arity="1"/>
<name name="monitor_nodes" arity="2"/>
<fsummary>Subscribe to node status change messages.</fsummary>
@@ -131,7 +159,7 @@ $ <input>erl -sname foobar</input></pre>
are stopped. Two
option lists are considered the same if they contain the same
set of options.</p>
- <p>As from <c>Kernel</c> version 2.11.4, and <c>ERTS</c> version
+ <p>As from Kernel version 2.11.4, and ERTS version
5.5.4, the following is guaranteed:</p>
<list type="bulleted">
<item><p><c>nodeup</c> messages are delivered before delivery
@@ -141,13 +169,13 @@ $ <input>erl -sname foobar</input></pre>
messages from the remote node that have been passed
through the connection have been delivered.</p></item>
</list>
- <p>Notice that this is <em>not</em> guaranteed for <c>Kernel</c>
+ <p>Notice that this is <em>not</em> guaranteed for Kernel
versions before 2.11.4.</p>
- <p>As from <c>Kernel</c> version 2.11.4, subscriptions can also be
+ <p>As from Kernel version 2.11.4, subscriptions can also be
made before the <c>net_kernel</c> server is started, that is,
<c>net_kernel:monitor_nodes/[1,2]</c> does not return
<c>ignored</c>.</p>
- <p>As from <c>Kernel</c> version 2.13, and <c>ERTS</c> version
+ <p>As from Kernel version 2.13, and ERTS version
5.7, the following is guaranteed:</p>
<list type="bulleted">
<item><p><c>nodeup</c> messages are delivered after the
@@ -157,7 +185,7 @@ $ <input>erl -sname foobar</input></pre>
corresponding node has disappeared in results from
<c>erlang:nodes/X</c>.</p></item>
</list>
- <p>Notice that this is <em>not</em> guaranteed for <c>Kernel</c>
+ <p>Notice that this is <em>not</em> guaranteed for Kernel
versions before 2.13.</p>
<p>The format of the node status change messages depends on
<c><anno>Options</anno></c>. If <c><anno>Options</anno></c> is
@@ -289,6 +317,27 @@ $ <input>erl -sname foobar</input></pre>
</func>
<func>
+ <name name="setopts" arity="2"/>
+ <fsummary>Set distribution socket options.</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Set one or more options for distribution sockets.
+ Argument <c><anno>Node</anno></c> can be either one node name
+ or the atom <c>new</c> to affect the distribution sockets of all
+ future connected nodes.</p>
+ <p>The return value is the same as from
+ <seealso marker="inet#setopts/2"><c>inet:setopts/2</c></seealso>
+ or <c>{error, noconnection}</c> if <c><anno>Node</anno></c> is not
+ a connected node or <c>new</c>.</p>
+ <p>If <c><anno>Node</anno></c> is <c>new</c> the <c><anno>Options</anno></c>
+ will then also be added to kernel configration parameters
+ <seealso marker="kernel:kernel_app#inet_dist_listen_options">inet_dist_listen_options</seealso>
+ and
+ <seealso marker="kernel:kernel_app#inet_dist_connect_options">inet_dist_connect_options</seealso>.</p>
+ <p>Returns <c>ignored</c> if the local node is not alive.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+
+ <func>
<name>start([Name]) -> {ok, pid()} | {error, Reason}</name>
<name>start([Name, NameType]) -> {ok, pid()} | {error, Reason}</name>
<name>start([Name, NameType, Ticktime]) -> {ok, pid()} | {error, Reason}</name>
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/notes.xml
index f37433110c..e1cf45109d 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2004</year><year>2016</year>
+ <year>2004</year><year>2017</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -31,6 +31,344 @@
</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the Kernel application.</p>
+<section><title>Kernel 5.3</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>Function <c>inet:ntoa/1</c> has been fixed to return
+ lowercase letters according to RFC 5935 that has been
+ approved after this function was written. Previously
+ uppercase letters were returned so this may be a
+ backwards incompatible change depending on how the
+ returned address string is used.</p>
+ <p>Function <c>inet:parse_address/1</c> has been fixed to
+ accept %-suffixes on scoped addresses. The addresses does
+ not work yet, but gives no parse errors.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13006 Aux Id: ERIERL-20, ERL-429 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix bug where gethostname would incorrectly fail with
+ enametoolong on Linux.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14310</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix bug causing <c>code:is_module_native</c> to falsely
+ return true when <c>local</c> call trace is enabled for
+ the module.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14390</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Add early reject of invalid node names from distributed
+ nodes.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14426</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Since Unicode is now allowed in atoms an extra check is
+ needed for node names, which are restricted to Latin-1.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13805</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Replaced usage of deprecated symbolic <seealso
+ marker="erts:erlang#type-time_unit"><c>time
+ unit</c></seealso> representations.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13831 Aux Id: OTP-13735 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p><c>file:write_file(Name, Data, [raw])</c> would turn
+ <c>Data</c> into a single binary before writing. This
+ meant it could not take advantage of the <c>writev()</c>
+ system call if it was given a list of binaries and told
+ to write with <c>raw</c> mode.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13909</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>The performance of the <c>disk_log</c> has been
+ somewhat improved in some corner cases (big items), and
+ the documentation has been clarified. </p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14057 Aux Id: PR-1245 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Functions for detecting changed code has been added.
+ <c>code:modified_modules/0</c> returns all currently
+ loaded modules that have changed on disk.
+ <c>code:module_status/1</c> returns the status for a
+ module. In the shell and in <c>c</c> module, <c>mm/0</c>
+ is short for <c>code:modified_modules/0</c>, and
+ <c>lm/0</c> reloads all currently loaded modules that
+ have changed on disk.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14059</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Introduce an event manager in Erlang to handle OS
+ signals. A subset of OS signals may be subscribed to and
+ those are described in the Kernel application.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14186</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p> Sockets can now be bound to device (SO_BINDTODEVICE)
+ on platforms where it is supported. </p> <p> This has
+ been implemented e.g to support VRF-Lite under Linux; see
+ <url
+ href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt">
+ VRF </url>, and GitHub pull request <url
+ href="https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/1326">#1326</url>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14357 Aux Id: PR-1326 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Added option to store shell_history on disk so that the
+ history can be reused between sessions.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14409 Aux Id: PR-1420 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p> The size of crash reports created by
+ <c>gen_server</c>, <c>gen_statem</c> and <c>proc_lib</c>
+ is limited with aid of the Kernel application variable
+ <c>error_logger_format_depth</c>. The purpose is to limit
+ the size of the messages sent to the <c>error_logger</c>
+ process when processes with huge message queues or states
+ crash. </p> <p>The crash report generated by
+ <c>proc_lib</c> includes the new tag
+ <c>message_queue_len</c>. The neighbour report also
+ includes the new tag <c>current_stacktrace</c>. Finally,
+ the neighbour report no longer includes the tags
+ <c>messages</c> and <c>dictionary</c>. </p> <p> The new
+ function <c>error_logger:get_format_depth/0</c> can be
+ used to retrieve the value of the Kernel application
+ variable <c>error_logger_format_depth</c>. </p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14417</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p> One of the ETS tables used by the <c>global</c>
+ module is created with <c>{read_concurrency, true}</c> in
+ order to reduce contention. </p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14419</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Warnings have been added to the relevant documentation
+ about not using un-secure distributed nodes in exposed
+ environments.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14425</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Kernel 5.2</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix a race during cleanup of os:cmd that would cause
+ os:cmd to hang indefinitely.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14232 Aux Id: seq13275 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>The functions in the '<c>file</c>' module that take a
+ list of paths (e.g. <c>file:path_consult/2</c>) will now
+ continue to search in the path if the path contains
+ something that is not a directory.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14191</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Two OTP processes that are known to receive many
+ messages are 'rex' (used by 'rpc') and 'error_logger'.
+ Those processes will now store unprocessed messages
+ outside the process heap, which will potentially decrease
+ the cost of garbage collections.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14192</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Kernel 5.1.1</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ <c>code:add_pathsa/1</c> and command line option
+ <c>-pa</c> both revert the given list of directories when
+ adding it at the beginning of the code path. This is now
+ documented.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13920 Aux Id: ERL-267 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Add lost runtime dependency to erts-8.1. This should have
+ been done in kernel-5.1 (OTP-19.1) as it cannot run
+ without at least erts-8.1 (OTP-19.1).</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14003</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Type and doc for gen_{tcp,udp,sctp}:controlling_process/2
+ has been improved.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14022 Aux Id: PR-1208 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Kernel 5.1</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix a memory leak when calling
+ seq_trace:get_system_tracer().</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13742</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix for the problem that when adding the ebin directory
+ of an application to the code path, the
+ <c>code:priv_dir/1</c> function returns an incorrect path
+ to the priv directory of the same application.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13758 Aux Id: ERL-195 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix code_server crash when adding code paths of two
+ levels.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13765 Aux Id: ERL-194 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Respect -proto_dist switch while connection to EPMD</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13770 Aux Id: PR-1129 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fixed a bug where init:stop could deadlock if a process
+ with infinite shutdown timeout (e.g. a supervisor)
+ attempted to load code while terminating.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13802</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Close stdin of commands run in os:cmd. This is a
+ backwards compatibility fix that restores the behaviour of
+ pre 19.0 os:cmd.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13867 Aux Id: seq13178 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Add <c>net_kernel:setopts/2</c> and
+ <c>net_kernel:getopts/2</c> to control options for
+ distribution sockets in runtime.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13564</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Rudimentary support for DSCP has been implemented
+ in the guise of a <c>tclass</c> socket option
+ for IPv6 sockets.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13582</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Kernel 5.0.2</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ When calling os:cmd from a process that has set trap_exit
+ to true an 'EXIT' message would be left in the message
+ queue. This bug was introduced in kernel vsn 5.0.1.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13813</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Kernel 5.0.1</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix a os:cmd bug where creating a background job using
+ &amp; would cause os:cmd to hang until the background job
+ terminated or closed its stdout and stderr file
+ descriptors. This bug has existed from kernel 5.0.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13741</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Kernel 5.0</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
@@ -1309,7 +1647,7 @@
dependent, so applications aiming to be portable should
consider using <c>{ipv6_v6only,true}</c> when creating an
<c>inet6</c> listening/destination socket, and if
- neccesary also create an <c>inet</c> socket on the same
+ necessary also create an <c>inet</c> socket on the same
port for IPv4 traffic. See the documentation.</p>
<p>
Own Id: OTP-8928 Aux Id: kunagi-193 [104] </p>
@@ -3447,7 +3785,7 @@
types (for instance, <c>ensure_loaded/1</c> now only
accepts an atom as documented; it used to accept a string
too).</p>
- <p><c>Dialyzer</c> will generally emit warnings for any
+ <p>Dialyzer will generally emit warnings for any
calls that use undocumented argument types. Even if the
call happens to still work in R12B, you should correct
your code. A future release will adhere to the
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/os.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/os.xml
index 739ac35d2a..0e9add4161 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/os.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/os.xml
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1997</year><year>2016</year>
+ <year>1997</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>os</title>
@@ -156,6 +156,33 @@ DirOut = os:cmd("dir"), % on Win32 platform</code>
</func>
<func>
+ <name name="set_signal" arity="2"/>
+ <fsummary>Enables or disables handling of OS signals.</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Enables or disables OS signals.</p>
+ <p>Each signal my be set to one of the following options:</p>
+ <taglist>
+ <tag><c>ignore</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ This signal will be ignored.
+ </item>
+
+ <tag><c>default</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ This signal will use the default signal handler for the operating system.
+ </item>
+
+ <tag><c>handle</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ This signal will notify
+ <seealso marker="kernel_app#erl_signal_server"><c>erl_signal_server</c></seealso>
+ when it is received by the Erlang runtime system.
+ </item>
+ </taglist>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+
+ <func>
<name name="system_time" arity="0"/>
<fsummary>Current OS system time.</fsummary>
<desc>
@@ -296,4 +323,3 @@ calendar:now_to_universal_time(TS),
</func>
</funcs>
</erlref>
-
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/rpc.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/rpc.xml
index 8cad9fe4fc..adec2d9520 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/rpc.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/rpc.xml
@@ -88,6 +88,12 @@
to retrieve the value of evaluating <c>apply(<anno>Module</anno>,
<anno>Function</anno>, <anno>Args</anno>)</c> on node
<c><anno>Node</anno></c>.</p>
+ <note>
+ <p><seealso marker="#yield/1"><c>yield/1</c></seealso> and
+ <seealso marker="#nb_yield/1"><c>nb_yield/1,2</c></seealso>
+ must be called by the same process from which this function
+ was made otherwise they will never yield correctly.</p>
+ </note>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -299,6 +305,11 @@
the tuple <c>{value, <anno>Val</anno>}</c> when the computation is
finished, or <c>timeout</c> when <c><anno>Timeout</anno></c>
milliseconds has elapsed.</p>
+ <note>
+ <p>This function must be called by the same process from which
+ <seealso marker="#async_call/4"><c>async_call/4</c></seealso>
+ was made otherwise it will only return <c>timeout</c>.</p>
+ </note>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -320,7 +331,7 @@
<fsummary>Information about a process.</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Location transparent version of the BIF
- <seealso marker="erts:erlang#process_info/1"><c>erlang:process_info/1</c></seealso> in <c>ERTS</c>.</p>
+ <seealso marker="erts:erlang#process_info/1"><c>erlang:process_info/1</c></seealso> in ERTS.</p>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -330,7 +341,7 @@
<fsummary>Information about a process.</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Location transparent version of the BIF
- <seealso marker="erts:erlang#process_info/2"><c>erlang:process_info/2</c></seealso> in <c>ERTS</c>.</p>
+ <seealso marker="erts:erlang#process_info/2"><c>erlang:process_info/2</c></seealso> in ERTS.</p>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -407,6 +418,11 @@
If the answer is available, it is
returned immediately. Otherwise, the calling process is
suspended until the answer arrives from <c>Node</c>.</p>
+ <note>
+ <p>This function must be called by the same process from which
+ <seealso marker="#async_call/4"><c>async_call/4</c></seealso>
+ was made otherwise it will never return.</p>
+ </note>
</desc>
</func>
</funcs>
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/seq_trace.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/seq_trace.xml
index 5ac199b6a7..197851021f 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/seq_trace.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/seq_trace.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1998</year><year>2016</year>
+ <year>1998</year><year>2017</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ seq_trace:set_token(OldToken), % activate the trace token again
<seealso marker="erts:time_correction#Erlang_Monotonic_Time">Erlang
monotonic time</seealso> and a monotonically increasing
integer. The time-stamp has the same format and value
- as produced by <c>{erlang:monotonic_time(nano_seconds),
+ as produced by <c>{erlang:monotonic_time(nanosecond),
erlang:unique_integer([monotonic])}</c>.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>set_token(monotonic_timestamp, <anno>Bool</anno>)</c></tag>
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ seq_trace:set_token(OldToken), % activate the trace token again
<seealso marker="erts:time_correction#Erlang_Monotonic_Time">Erlang
monotonic time</seealso>. The time-stamp has the same
format and value as produced by
- <c>erlang:monotonic_time(nano_seconds)</c>.</p>
+ <c>erlang:monotonic_time(nanosecond)</c>.</p>
</item>
</taglist>
<p>If multiple timestamp flags are passed, <c>timestamp</c> has
@@ -427,12 +427,6 @@ prev_cnt := tcurr</code>
built with <c>Erl_Interface</c> only maintains one trace token, which
means that the C-node appears as one process from
the sequential tracing point of view.</p>
- <p>To be able to perform sequential tracing between
- distributed Erlang nodes, the distribution protocol has been
- extended (in a backward compatible way). An Erlang node
- supporting sequential tracing can communicate with an older
- (Erlang/OTP R3B) node but messages passed within that node can
- not be traced.</p>
</section>
<section>
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/zlib_stub.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/zlib_stub.xml
index b111581b10..9ab9c4eb62 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/zlib_stub.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/zlib_stub.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,6 @@
<modulesummary>Zlib compression interface.</modulesummary>
<description>
<p>This module is moved to the
- <seealso marker="erts:zlib"><c>ERTS</c></seealso> application.</p>
+ <seealso marker="erts:zlib">ERTS</seealso> application.</p>
</description>
</erlref>