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-rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml index ab360fbb6f..ff06b04d07 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml @@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ monitoring its child processes. The basic idea of a supervisor is that it should keep its child processes alive by restarting them when necessary.</p> - <p>The children of a supervisor is defined as a list of <em>child specifications</em>. When the supervisor is started, the child + <p>The children of a supervisor is defined as a list of + <em>child specifications</em>. When the supervisor is started, the child processes are started in order from left to right according to this list. When the supervisor terminates, it first terminates its child processes in reversed start order, from right to left.</p> @@ -100,7 +101,8 @@ </item> </list> <p>To prevent a supervisor from getting into an infinite loop of - child process terminations and restarts, a <em>maximum restart frequency</em> is defined using two integer values <c>MaxR</c> + child process terminations and restarts, a <em>maximum restart frequency</em> + is defined using two integer values <c>MaxR</c> and <c>MaxT</c>. If more than <c>MaxR</c> restarts occur within <c>MaxT</c> seconds, the supervisor terminates all child processes and then itself. @@ -197,7 +199,8 @@ child_spec() = {Id,StartFunc,Restart,Shutdown,Type,Modules} the callback module, if the child process is a supervisor, gen_server or gen_fsm. If the child process is an event manager (gen_event) with a dynamic set of callback modules, - <c>Modules</c> should be <c>dynamic</c>. See <em>OTP Design Principles</em> for more information about release handling.</p> + <c>Modules</c> should be <c>dynamic</c>. See <em>OTP Design Principles</em> + for more information about release handling.</p> </item> <item> <p>Internally, the supervisor also keeps track of the pid @@ -434,7 +437,8 @@ child_spec() = {Id,StartFunc,Restart,Shutdown,Type,Modules} </func> <func> <name name="which_children" arity="1"/> - <fsummary>Return information about all children specifications and child processes belonging to a supervisor.</fsummary> + <fsummary>Return information about all children specifications and + child processes belonging to a supervisor.</fsummary> <desc> <p>Returns a newly created list with information about all child specifications and child processes belonging to @@ -467,7 +471,8 @@ child_spec() = {Id,StartFunc,Restart,Shutdown,Type,Modules} </func> <func> <name name="count_children" arity="1"/> - <fsummary>Return counts for the number of childspecs, active children, supervisors and workers.</fsummary> + <fsummary>Return counts for the number of childspecs, active children, + supervisors and workers.</fsummary> <desc> <p>Returns a property list (see <c>proplists</c>) containing the counts for each of the following elements of the supervisor's |