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diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
index adf9d24eae..c696434d49 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1996</year><year>2009</year>
+ <year>1996</year><year>2010</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@
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>supervisor</title>
@@ -402,9 +402,12 @@ child_spec() = {Id,StartFunc,Restart,Shutdown,Type,Modules}
<v>&nbsp;Module = atom()</v>
</type>
<desc>
- <p>Returns a list with information about all child
+ <p>Returns a newly created list with information about all child
specifications and child processes belonging to
the supervisor <c>SupRef</c>.</p>
+ <p>Note that calling this function when supervising a large
+ number of children under low memory conditions can cause an
+ out of memory exception.</p>
<p>See <c>start_child/2</c> for a description of <c>SupRef</c>.</p>
<p>The information given for each child specification/process
is:</p>
@@ -428,6 +431,39 @@ child_spec() = {Id,StartFunc,Restart,Shutdown,Type,Modules}
</desc>
</func>
<func>
+ <name>count_children(SupRef) -> PropListOfCounts</name>
+ <fsummary>Return counts for the number of childspecs, active children, supervisors and workers.</fsummary>
+ <type>
+ <v>SupRef = Name | {Name,Node} | {global,Name} | pid()</v>
+ <v>&nbsp;Name = Node = atom()</v>
+ <v>PropListOfCounts = [{specs, ChildSpecCount}, {active, ActiveProcessCount}, {supervisors, ChildSupervisorCount}, {workers, ChildWorkerCount}]</v>
+ </type>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Returns a property list (see <c>proplists</c>) containing the
+ counts for each of the following elements of the supervisor's
+ child specifications and managed processes:</p>
+ <list type="bulleted">
+ <item>
+ <p><c>specs</c> - the total count of children, dead or alive.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p><c>active</c> - the count of all actively running child processes
+ managed by this supervisor.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p><c>supervisors</c> - the count of all children marked as
+ child_type = supervisor in the spec list, whether or not the
+ child process is still alive.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p><c>workers</c> - the count of all children marked as
+ child_type = worker in the spec list, whether or not the child
+ process is still alive.</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+ <func>
<name>check_childspecs([ChildSpec]) -> Result</name>
<fsummary>Check if children specifications are syntactically correct.</fsummary>
<type>