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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/stdlib/doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode.xml | 3 |
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml index 93affc3191..1b8fa44883 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml @@ -136,6 +136,11 @@ <c>random_seed</c> to remember the current seed.</p> <p>If a process calls <c>uniform/0</c> or <c>uniform/1</c> without setting a seed first, <c>seed/0</c> is called automatically.</p> + <p>The implementation changed in R15. Upgrading to R15 will break + applications that expect a specific output for a given seed. The output + is still deterministic number series, but different compared to releases + older than R15. The seed <c>{0,0,0}</c> will for example no longer + produce a flawed series of only zeros.</p> </section> </erlref> diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml index ec607d6e4c..30514dfee9 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml @@ -93,6 +93,10 @@ instead the child specification identifier is used, <c>terminate_child/2</c> will return <c>{error,simple_one_for_one}</c>.</p> + <p>Because a <c>simple_one_for_one</c> supervisor could have many + children, it shuts them all down at same time. So, order in which they + are stopped is not defined. For the same reason, it could have an + overhead with regards to the <c>Shutdown</c> strategy.</p> </item> </list> <p>To prevent a supervisor from getting into an infinite loop of @@ -169,7 +173,15 @@ child_spec() = {Id,StartFunc,Restart,Shutdown,Type,Modules} <c>exit(Child,kill)</c>.</p> <p>If the child process is another supervisor, <c>Shutdown</c> should be set to <c>infinity</c> to give the subtree ample - time to shutdown.</p> + time to shutdown. It is also allowed to set it to <c>infinity</c>, + if the child process is a worker.</p> + <warning> + <p>Be careful by setting the <c>Shutdown</c> strategy to + <c>infinity</c> when the child process is a worker. Because, in this + situation, the termination of the supervision tree depends on the + child process, it must be implemented in a safe way and its cleanup + procedure must always return.</p> + </warning> <p><em>Important note on simple-one-for-one supervisors:</em> The dynamically created child processes of a simple-one-for-one supervisor are not explicitly killed, diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode.xml index d02763f75c..1001ebbae4 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode.xml @@ -203,8 +203,7 @@ <item>greater than <c>16#10FFFF</c> (the maximum unicode character),</item> <item>in the range <c>16#D800</c> to <c>16#DFFF</c> - (invalid unicode range)</item> - <item>or equal to 16#FFFE or 16#FFFF (non characters)</item> + (invalid range reserved for UTF-16 surrogate pairs)</item> </list> is found. </item> |