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-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml14
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/os.xml13
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/pg2.xml10
3 files changed, 23 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
index dcb9640dcf..338d62e82b 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
@@ -1693,9 +1693,9 @@
<desc>
<p>Makes sure that any buffers kept by the operating system
(not by the Erlang runtime system) are written to disk. In
- many ways it's resembles fsync but it not requires to update
- some of file's metadata such as the access time. On
- some platforms, this function might have no effect.</p>
+ many ways it resembles fsync but it does not update
+ some of the file's metadata such as the access time. On
+ some platforms this function has no effect.</p>
<p>Applications that access databases or log files often write
a tiny data fragment (e.g., one line in a log file) and then
call fsync() immediately in order to ensure that the written
@@ -1703,11 +1703,11 @@
will always initiate two write operations: one for the newly
written data and another one in order to update the modification
time stored in the inode. If the modification time is not a part
- of the transaction concept fdatasync() can be used to avoid
+ of the transaction concept, fdatasync() can be used to avoid
unnecessary inode disk write operations.</p>
- <p>Available only in some POSIX systems. This call results in a
- call to fsync(), or has no effect, in systems not implementing
- the fdatasync syscall.</p>
+ <p>Available only in some POSIX systems, this call results in a
+ call to fsync(), or has no effect in systems not implementing
+ the fdatasync() syscall.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/os.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/os.xml
index 2b57e75023..8b85f24455 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/os.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/os.xml
@@ -100,6 +100,19 @@ DirOut = os:cmd("dir"), % on Win32 platform</code>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
+ <name name="getenv" arity="2"/>
+ <fsummary>Get the value of an environment variable</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Returns the <c><anno>Value</anno></c> of the environment variable
+ <c><anno>VarName</anno></c>, or <c>DefaultValue</c> if the environment variable
+ is undefined.</p>
+ <p>If Unicode file name encoding is in effect (see the <seealso
+ marker="erts:erl#file_name_encoding">erl manual
+ page</seealso>), the strings (both <c><anno>VarName</anno></c> and
+ <c><anno>Value</anno></c>) may contain characters with codepoints > 255.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+ <func>
<name name="getpid" arity="0"/>
<fsummary>Return the process identifier of the emulator process</fsummary>
<desc>
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/pg2.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/pg2.xml
index 5eb63c1ef6..35cf85470a 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/pg2.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/pg2.xml
@@ -34,11 +34,8 @@
<module>pg2</module>
<modulesummary>Distributed Named Process Groups</modulesummary>
<description>
- <p>This module implements process groups. The groups in this
- module differ from the groups in the module <c>pg</c> in several
- ways. In <c>pg</c>, each message is sent to all members in the
- group. In this module, each message may be sent to one, some, or
- all members.
+ <p>This module implements process groups. Each message may be sent
+ to one, some, or all members of the group.
</p>
<p>A group of processes can be accessed by a common name. For
example, if there is a group named <c>foobar</c>, there can be a
@@ -160,8 +157,7 @@
<section>
<title>See Also</title>
- <p><seealso marker="kernel_app">kernel(6)</seealso>,
- <seealso marker="stdlib:pg">pg(3)</seealso></p>
+ <p><seealso marker="kernel_app">kernel(6)</seealso></p>
</section>
</erlref>