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-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/Makefile1
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/application.xml9
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml40
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml132
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/packages.xml208
-rw-r--r--lib/kernel/doc/src/ref_man.xml1
6 files changed, 161 insertions, 230 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/Makefile b/lib/kernel/doc/src/Makefile
index 5e04bff0c1..de3ca1e176 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/Makefile
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/Makefile
@@ -58,7 +58,6 @@ XML_REF3_FILES = application.xml \
net_adm.xml \
net_kernel.xml \
os.xml \
- packages.xml \
pg2.xml \
rpc.xml \
seq_trace.xml \
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/application.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/application.xml
index 51a3311ec2..9f19efc793 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/application.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/application.xml
@@ -121,6 +121,15 @@
</desc>
</func>
<func>
+ <name name="get_env" arity="3"/>
+ <fsummary>Get the value of a configuration parameter using a default</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Works like <seealso marker="#get_env/2">get_env/2</seealso> but returns
+ <c><anno>Def</anno></c> value when configuration parameter
+ <c><anno>Par</anno></c> does not exist.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+ <func>
<name name="get_key" arity="1"/>
<name name="get_key" arity="2"/>
<fsummary>Get the value of an application specification key</fsummary>
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
index b2a259080d..e30ade1bd2 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/file.xml
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
<desc>
<p>As returned by
<seealso marker="#open/2">file:open/2</seealso>,
- a process handling IO protocols.</p>
+ a process handling I/O-protocols.</p>
</desc>
</datatype>
<datatype>
@@ -170,6 +170,18 @@
</desc>
</func>
<func>
+ <name name="allocate" arity="3"/>
+ <fsummary>Allocate file space</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p><c>allocate/3</c> can be used to preallocate space for a file.</p>
+ <p>This function only succeeds in platforms that implement this
+ feature. When it succeeds, space is preallocated for the file but
+ the file size might not be updated. This behaviour depends on the
+ preallocation implementation. To guarantee the file size is updated
+ one must truncate the file to the new size.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+ <func>
<name name="change_group" arity="2"/>
<fsummary>Change group of a file</fsummary>
<desc>
@@ -261,6 +273,9 @@
{person, "pelle", 30}.</code>
<pre>1> <input>file:consult("f.txt").</input>
{ok,[{person,"kalle",25},{person,"pelle",30}]}</pre>
+ <p>The encoding of of <c><anno>Filename</anno></c> can be set
+ by a comment as described in <seealso
+ marker="stdlib:epp#encoding">epp(3)</seealso>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -399,6 +414,9 @@
of the error.</p>
</item>
</taglist>
+ <p>The encoding of of <c><anno>Filename</anno></c> can be set
+ by a comment as described in <seealso
+ marker="stdlib:epp#encoding">epp(3)</seealso>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -610,7 +628,7 @@
<name name="open" arity="2"/>
<fsummary>Open a file</fsummary>
<desc>
- <p>Opens the file <c><anno>Filename</anno></c> in the mode determined
+ <p>Opens the file <c><anno>File</anno></c> in the mode determined
by <c><anno>Modes</anno></c>, which may contain one or more of the
following items:</p>
<taglist>
@@ -767,6 +785,10 @@
<p>The Encoding can be changed for a file "on the fly" by using the <seealso marker="stdlib:io#setopts/2">io:setopts/2</seealso> function, why a file can be analyzed in latin1 encoding for i.e. a BOM, positioned beyond the BOM and then be set for the right encoding before further reading.See the <seealso marker="stdlib:unicode">unicode(3)</seealso> module for functions identifying BOM's.</p>
<p>This option is not allowed on <c>raw</c> files.</p>
</item>
+ <tag><c>ram</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p><c>File</c> must be <c>iodata()</c>. Returns an <c>fd()</c> which lets the <c>file</c> module operate on the data in-memory as if it is a file.</p>
+ </item>
</taglist>
<p>Returns:</p>
<taglist>
@@ -861,6 +883,9 @@
the error.</p>
</item>
</taglist>
+ <p>The encoding of of <c><anno>Filename</anno></c> can be set
+ by a comment as described in <seealso
+ marker="stdlib:epp#encoding">epp(3)</seealso>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -902,6 +927,9 @@
of the error.</p>
</item>
</taglist>
+ <p>The encoding of of <c><anno>Filename</anno></c> can be set
+ by a comment as described in <seealso
+ marker="stdlib:epp#encoding">epp(3)</seealso>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -971,7 +999,10 @@
of the error.</p>
</item>
</taglist>
- </desc>
+ <p>The encoding of of <c><anno>Filename</anno></c> can be set
+ by a comment as described in <seealso
+ marker="stdlib:epp#encoding">epp(3)</seealso>.</p>
+ </desc>
</func>
<func>
<name name="path_script" arity="3"/>
@@ -1502,6 +1533,9 @@
of the error.</p>
</item>
</taglist>
+ <p>The encoding of of <c><anno>Filename</anno></c> can be set
+ by a comment as described in <seealso
+ marker="stdlib:epp#encoding">epp(3)</seealso>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml
index f498a88c5e..3d929a772e 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml
@@ -323,8 +323,11 @@ fe80::204:acff:fe17:bf38
<type name="stat_option"/>
<desc>
<p>Gets one or more statistic options for a socket.</p>
+
<p><c>getstat(<anno>Socket</anno>)</c> is equivalent to
- <c>getstat(<anno>Socket</anno>,&nbsp;[recv_avg,&nbsp;recv_cnt,&nbsp;recv_dvi,&nbsp;recv_max,&nbsp;recv_oct,&nbsp;send_avg,&nbsp;send_cnt,&nbsp;send_dvi,&nbsp;send_max,&nbsp;send_oct])</c></p>
+ <c>getstat(<anno>Socket</anno>, [recv_avg, recv_cnt, recv_dvi,
+ recv_max, recv_oct, send_avg, send_cnt, send_dvi, send_max,
+ send_oct])</c>.</p>
<p>The following options are available:</p>
<taglist>
<tag><c>recv_avg</c></tag>
@@ -371,7 +374,51 @@ fe80::204:acff:fe17:bf38
</taglist>
</desc>
</func>
-
+ <func>
+ <name name="parse_ipv4_address" arity="1" />
+ <fsummary>Parse an IPv4 address</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Parses an IPv4 address string and returns an <a href="#type-ip4_address">ip4_address()</a>.
+ Accepts a shortened IPv4 shortened address string.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+ <func>
+ <name name="parse_ipv4strict_address" arity="1" />
+ <fsummary>Parse an IPv4 address strict.</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Parses an IPv4 address string containing four fields, i.e <b>not</b> shortened, and returns an <a href="#type-ip4_adress">ip4_address()</a>.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+ <func>
+ <name name="parse_ipv6_address" arity="1" />
+ <fsummary>Parse an IPv6 address</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Parses an IPv6 address string and returns an <a href="#type-ip6_address">ip6_address()</a>.
+ If an IPv4 address string is passed, an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address is returned.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+ <func>
+ <name name="parse_ipv6strict_address" arity="1" />
+ <fsummary>Parse an IPv6 address strict.</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Parses an IPv6 address string and returns an <a href="#type-ip6_address">ip6_address()</a>.
+ Does <b>not</b> accept IPv4 adresses.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+ <func>
+ <name name="parse_address" arity="1" />
+ <fsummary>Parse an IPv4 or IPv6 address.</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Parses an IPv4 or IPv6 address string and returns an <a href="#type-ip4_address">ip4_address()</a> or <a href="#type-ip6_address">ip6_address()</a>. Accepts a shortened IPv4 address string.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+ <func>
+ <name name="parse_strict_address" arity="1" />
+ <fsummary>Parse an IPv4 or IPv6 address strict.</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Parses an IPv4 or IPv6 address string and returns an <a href="#type-ip4_address">ip4_address()</a> or <a href="#type-ip6_adress">ip6_address()</a>. Does <b>not</b> accept a shortened IPv4 address string.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
<func>
<name name="peername" arity="1"/>
<fsummary>Return the address and port for the other end of a connection</fsummary>
@@ -512,13 +559,37 @@ fe80::204:acff:fe17:bf38
<c>[Byte1,Byte2|Binary]</c>.</p>
</item>
- <tag><c>{high_watermark, Size}</c></tag>
- <item> <p>
- Sender is forced busy if sent and enqueued data
- reaches the highwater mark.
- <br /> Default: 8192 kB.
- </p>
- </item>
+ <tag><c>{high_msgq_watermark, Size}</c> (TCP/IP sockets)</tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>The socket message queue will be set into a busy
+ state when the amount of data queued on the message
+ queue reaches this limit. Note that this limit only
+ concerns data that have not yet reached the ERTS internal
+ socket implementation. Default value used is 8 kB.</p>
+ <p>Senders of data to the socket will be suspended if
+ either the socket message queue is busy, or the socket
+ itself is busy.</p>
+ <p>For more information see the <c>low_msgq_watermark</c>,
+ <c>high_watermark</c>, and <c>low_watermark</c> options.</p>
+ <p>Note that distribution sockets will disable the use of
+ <c>high_msgq_watermark</c> and <c>low_msgq_watermark</c>,
+ and will instead use the
+ <seealso marker="erts:erlang#system_info_dist_buf_busy_limit">distribution
+ buffer busy limit</seealso> which is a similar feature.</p>
+ </item>
+
+ <tag><c>{high_watermark, Size}</c> (TCP/IP sockets)</tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>The socket will be set into a busy state when the amount
+ of data queued internally by the ERTS socket implementation
+ reaches this limit. Default value used is 8 kB.</p>
+ <p>Senders of data to the socket will be suspended if
+ either the socket message queue is busy, or the socket
+ itself is busy.</p>
+ <p>For more information see the <c>low_watermark</c>,
+ <c>high_msgq_watermark</c>, and <c>low_msqg_watermark</c>
+ options.</p>
+ </item>
<tag><c>{ipv6_v6only, Boolean}</c></tag>
<item>
@@ -603,14 +674,41 @@ fe80::204:acff:fe17:bf38
the flushing time-out in seconds.</p>
</item>
- <tag><c>{low_watermark, Size}</c></tag>
- <item> <p>
- If the port has reached its <c>high_watermark</c> it will
- force busy onto senders. When the port data queue reaches the
- <c>low_watermark</c> callers are no longer forced busy.
- <br /> Default: 4096 kB.
- </p>
- </item>
+ <tag><c>{low_msgq_watermark, Size}</c> (TCP/IP sockets)</tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>If the socket message queue is in a busy state, the
+ socket message queue will be set in a not busy state when
+ the amount of data queued in the message queue falls
+ below this limit. Note that this limit only concerns data
+ that have not yet reached the ERTS internal socket
+ implementation. Default value used is 4 kB.</p>
+ <p>Senders that have been suspended due to either a
+ busy message queue or a busy socket, will be resumed
+ when neither the socket message queue, nor the socket
+ are busy.</p>
+ <p>For more information see the <c>high_msgq_watermark</c>,
+ <c>high_watermark</c>, and <c>low_watermark</c> options.</p>
+ <p>Note that distribution sockets will disable the use of
+ <c>high_msgq_watermark</c> and <c>low_msgq_watermark</c>,
+ and will instead use the
+ <seealso marker="erts:erlang#system_info_dist_buf_busy_limit">distribution
+ buffer busy limit</seealso> which is a similar feature.</p>
+ </item>
+
+ <tag><c>{low_watermark, Size}</c> (TCP/IP sockets)</tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>If the socket is in a busy state, the socket will
+ be set in a not busy state when the amount of data
+ queued internally by the ERTS socket implementation
+ falls below this limit. Default value used is 4 kB.</p>
+ <p>Senders that have been suspended due to either a
+ busy message queue or a busy socket, will be resumed
+ when neither the socket message queue, nor the socket
+ are busy.</p>
+ <p>For more information see the <c>high_watermark</c>,
+ <c>high_msgq_watermark</c>, and <c>low_msgq_watermark</c>
+ options.</p>
+ </item>
<tag><c>{mode, Mode :: binary | list}</c></tag>
<item>
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/packages.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/packages.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 8a82b91a90..0000000000
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/packages.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,208 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE erlref SYSTEM "erlref.dtd">
-
-<erlref>
- <header>
- <copyright>
- <year>2004</year><year>2012</year>
- <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
- </copyright>
- <legalnotice>
- The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
- Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
- compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
- Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
- retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/.
-
- Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
- basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
- the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
- under the License.
-
- </legalnotice>
-
- <title>packages</title>
- <prepared>Kenneth Lundin</prepared>
- <responsible>Kenneth Lundin</responsible>
- <docno>1</docno>
- <approved>Kenneth Lundin</approved>
- <checked></checked>
- <date>2004-09-07</date>
- <rev>A</rev>
- <file>packages.sgml</file>
- </header>
- <module>packages</module>
- <modulesummary>Packages in Erlang</modulesummary>
- <description>
- <warning><p>
- Packages has since it was introduced more than 5 years ago been an
- experimental feature. Use it at your own risk, we do not
- actively maintain and develop this feature. It might however be
- supported some
- day.
- </p>
- <p>
- In spite of this packages work quite well, but there are some
- known issues in tools and other parts where packages don't work well.
- </p>
- </warning>
- <p><em>Introduction</em></p>
- <p>Packages are simply namespaces for modules.
- All old Erlang modules automatically belong to the top level
- ("empty-string") namespace, and do not need any changes.</p>
- <p>The full name of a packaged module is written as e.g.
- "<c>fee.fie.foe.foo</c>",
- i.e., as atoms separated by periods,
- where the package name is the part up to
- but not including the last period;
- in this case "<c>fee.fie.foe</c>".
- A more concrete example is the module <c>erl.lang.term</c>,
- which is in the
- package <c>erl.lang</c>.
- Package names can have any number of segments, as in
- <c>erl.lang.list.sort</c>.
- The atoms in the name can be quoted, as in <c>foo.'Bar'.baz</c>,
- or even the
- whole name, as in <c>'foo.bar.baz'</c> but the concatenation of
- atoms and
- periods must not contain two consecutive period characters or
- end with a period,
- as in <c>'foo..bar'</c>, <c>foo.'.bar'</c>, or <c>foo.'bar.'</c>.
- The periods must not be followed by whitespace.</p>
- <p>The code loader maps module names onto the file system directory
- structure.
- E.g., the module <c>erl.lang.term</c> corresponds to a file
- <c>.../erl/lang/term.beam</c>
- in the search path.
- Note that the name of the actual object file corresponds to
- the last part only of the full module name.
- (Thus, old existing modules such as <c>lists</c>
- simply map to <c>.../lists.beam</c>, exactly as before.)</p>
- <p>A packaged module in a file "<c>foo/bar/fred.erl</c>" is declared
- as:</p>
- <code type="none">
--module(foo.bar.fred).</code>
- <p>This can be compiled and loaded from the Erlang shell using
- <c>c(fred)</c>, if
- your current directory is the same as that of the file.
- The object file will be named <c>fred.beam</c>.</p>
- <p>The Erlang search path works exactly as before,
- except that the package segments will be appended to each
- directory in the path in order to find the
- file. E.g., assume the path is <c>["/usr/lib/erl", "/usr/local/lib/otp/legacy/ebin", "/home/barney/erl"]</c>.
- Then, the code for a module named <c>foo.bar.fred</c> will be
- searched for
- first as <c>"/usr/lib/erl/foo/bar/fred.beam"</c>, then
- <c>"/usr/local/lib/otp/legacy/ebin/foo/bar/fred.beam"</c>
- and lastly <c>"/home/barney/erl/foo/bar/fred.beam"</c>.
- A module
- like <c>lists</c>, which is in the top-level package,
- will be looked for as <c>"/usr/lib/erl/lists.beam"</c>,
- <c>"/usr/local/lib/otp/legacy/ebin/lists.beam"</c> and
- <c>"/home/barney/erl/lists.beam"</c>.</p>
- <p><em>Programming</em></p>
- <p>Normally, if a call is made from one module to another,
- it is assumed that the
- called module belongs to the same package as the source module.
- The compiler
- automatically expands such calls. E.g., in:</p>
- <code type="none">
--module(foo.bar.m1).
--export([f/1]).
-
-f(X) -> m2:g(X).</code>
- <p><c>m2:g(X)</c> becomes a call to <c>foo.bar.m2</c>
- If this is not what was intended, the call can be written
- explicitly, as in</p>
- <code type="none">
--module(foo.bar.m1).
--export([f/1]).
-
-f(X) -> fee.fie.foe.m2:g(X).</code>
- <p>Because the called module is given with an explicit package name,
- no expansion is done in this case.</p>
- <p>If a module from another package is used repeatedly in a module,
- an import declaration can make life easier:</p>
- <code type="none">
--module(foo.bar.m1).
--export([f/1, g/1]).
--import(fee.fie.foe.m2).
-
-f(X) -> m2:g(X).
-g(X) -> m2:h(X).</code>
- <p>will make the calls to <c>m2</c> refer to <c>fee.fie.foe.m2</c>.
- More generally, a declaration <c>-import(Package.Module).</c>
- will cause calls to <c>Module</c>
- to be expanded to <c>Package.Module</c>.</p>
- <p>Old-style function imports work as normal (but full module
- names must be
- used); e.g.:</p>
- <code type="none">
--import(fee.fie.foe.m2, [g/1, h/1]).</code>
- <p>however, it is probably better to avoid this form of import
- altogether in new
- code, since it makes it hard to see what calls are really "remote".</p>
- <p>If it is necessary to call a module in the top-level package
- from within a
- named package, the module name can be written either with an
- initial period as
- in e.g. "<c>.lists</c>", or with an empty initial atom, as in
- "<c>''.lists</c>".
- However, the best way is to use an import declaration -
- this is most obvious to
- the eye, and makes sure we don't forget adding a period somewhere:</p>
- <code type="none">
--module(foo.bar.fred).
--export([f/1]).
--import(lists).
-
-f(X) -> lists:reverse(X).</code>
- <p>The dot-syntax for module names can be used in any expression.
- All segments must
- be constant atoms, and the result must be a well-formed
- package/module name.
- E.g.:</p>
- <code type="none">
-spawn(foo.bar.fred, f, [X])</code>
- <p>is equivalent to <c>spawn('foo.bar.fred', f, [X])</c>.</p>
- <p><em>The Erlang Shell</em></p>
- <p>The shell also automatically expands remote calls,
- however currently no
- expansions are made by default.
- The user can change the behaviour by using the <c>import/1</c>
- shell command (or its abbreviation <c>use/1</c>). E.g.:</p>
- <pre>
-1> <input>import(foo.bar.m).</input>
-ok
-2> <input>m:f().</input></pre>
- <p>will evaluate <c>foo.bar.m:f()</c>.
- If a new import is made of the same name,
- this overrides any previous import.
- (It is likely that in the future, some
- system packages will be pre-imported.)</p>
- <p>In addition, the shell command <c>import_all/1</c>
- (and its alias <c>use_all/1</c>)
- imports all modules currently found in the path for a given
- package name. E.g.,
- assuming the files "<c>.../foo/bar/fred.beam</c>",
- "<c>.../foo/bar/barney.beam</c>"
- and "<c>.../foo/bar/bambam.beam</c>" can be found from our current
- path,</p>
- <pre>
-1> <input>import_all(foo.bar).</input></pre>
- <p>will make <c>fred</c>, <c>barney</c> and <c>bambam</c>
- expand to <c>foo.bar.fred</c>,
- <c>foo.bar.barney</c> and <c>foo.bar.bambam</c>, respectively.</p>
- <p>Note: The compiler does not have an "import all" directive, for the
- reason that Erlang has no compile time type checking.
- E.g. if the wrong search
- path is used at compile time, a call <c>m:f(...)</c>
- could be expanded to <c>foo.bar.m:f(...)</c>
- without any warning, instead of the intended
- <c>frob.ozz.m:f(...)</c>, if
- package <c>foo.bar</c> happens to be found first in the path.
- Explicitly
- declaring each use of a module makes for safe code.</p>
- </description>
-</erlref>
-
diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/ref_man.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/ref_man.xml
index 9ef0959271..67d91ba585 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/ref_man.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/ref_man.xml
@@ -64,6 +64,5 @@
<xi:include href="zlib_stub.xml"/>
<xi:include href="app.xml"/>
<xi:include href="config.xml"/>
- <xi:include href="packages.xml"/>
</application>