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diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/sys.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/sys.xml
index 19605f325b..d400f72e1d 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/sys.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/sys.xml
@@ -8,16 +8,17 @@
<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.
+ 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
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ 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>
@@ -237,8 +238,8 @@
<p>These functions are intended only to help with debugging. They are provided for
convenience, allowing developers to avoid having to create their own state extraction
functions and also avoid having to interactively extract state from the return values of
- <c><seealso marker="#get_status-1">get_status/1</seealso></c> or
- <c><seealso marker="#get_status-2">get_status/2</seealso></c> while debugging.</p>
+ <seealso marker="#get_status-1"><c>get_status/1</c></seealso> or
+ <seealso marker="#get_status-2"><c>get_status/2</c></seealso> while debugging.</p>
</note>
<p>The value of <c><anno>State</anno></c> varies for different types of
processes. For a <c>gen_server</c> process, the returned <c><anno>State</anno></c>
@@ -359,6 +360,17 @@
installed.</p>
</desc>
</func>
+ <func>
+ <name name="terminate" arity="2"/>
+ <name name="terminate" arity="3"/>
+ <fsummary>Terminate the process</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>This function orders the process to terminate with the
+ given <c><anno>Reason</anno></c>. The termination is done
+ asynchronously, so there is no guarantee that the process is
+ actually terminated when the function returns.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
</funcs>
<section>