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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/stdlib/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/Makefile | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/binary.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/ets.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/gen_event.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/gen_server.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/lists.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml | 165 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml | 8 |
9 files changed, 187 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/Makefile b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/Makefile index 6c92756ae7..c3138c4d9f 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/Makefile +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/Makefile @@ -173,15 +173,15 @@ $(SPECDIR)/specs_erl_id_trans.xml: include $(ERL_TOP)/make/otp_release_targets.mk release_docs_spec: docs - $(INSTALL_DIR) $(RELSYSDIR)/doc/pdf - $(INSTALL_DATA) $(TOP_PDF_FILE) $(RELSYSDIR)/doc/pdf - $(INSTALL_DIR) $(RELSYSDIR)/doc/html + $(INSTALL_DIR) "$(RELSYSDIR)/doc/pdf" + $(INSTALL_DATA) $(TOP_PDF_FILE) "$(RELSYSDIR)/doc/pdf" + $(INSTALL_DIR) "$(RELSYSDIR)/doc/html" $(INSTALL_DATA) $(HTMLDIR)/* \ - $(RELSYSDIR)/doc/html - $(INSTALL_DATA) $(INFO_FILE) $(RELSYSDIR) - $(INSTALL_DIR) $(RELEASE_PATH)/man/man3 - $(INSTALL_DATA) $(MAN3DIR)/* $(RELEASE_PATH)/man/man3 - $(INSTALL_DIR) $(RELEASE_PATH)/man/man6 - $(INSTALL_DATA) $(MAN6_FILES) $(RELEASE_PATH)/man/man6 + "$(RELSYSDIR)/doc/html" + $(INSTALL_DATA) $(INFO_FILE) "$(RELSYSDIR)" + $(INSTALL_DIR) "$(RELEASE_PATH)/man/man3" + $(INSTALL_DATA) $(MAN3DIR)/* "$(RELEASE_PATH)/man/man3" + $(INSTALL_DIR) "$(RELEASE_PATH)/man/man6" + $(INSTALL_DATA) $(MAN6_FILES) "$(RELEASE_PATH)/man/man6" release_spec: diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/binary.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/binary.xml index 7ce2defb72..7b8e279788 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/binary.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/binary.xml @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ <header> <copyright> <year>2009</year> - <year>2011</year> + <year>2012</year> <holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/ets.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/ets.xml index 0486090e92..487b06473f 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/ets.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/ets.xml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <erlref> <header> <copyright> - <year>1996</year><year>2011</year> + <year>1996</year><year>2012</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/gen_event.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/gen_event.xml index ef81b06500..1601ea9892 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/gen_event.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/gen_event.xml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <erlref> <header> <copyright> - <year>1996</year><year>2011</year> + <year>1996</year><year>2012</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/gen_server.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/gen_server.xml index 9edff1b9cf..abb4c73c7b 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/gen_server.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/gen_server.xml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <erlref> <header> <copyright> - <year>1996</year><year>2011</year> + <year>1996</year><year>2012</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/lists.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/lists.xml index 96a0942710..8b31f3ac3d 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/lists.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/lists.xml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <erlref> <header> <copyright> - <year>1996</year><year>2011</year> + <year>1996</year><year>2012</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml index 42a26ee44a..4834426d5c 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml @@ -30,6 +30,171 @@ </header> <p>This document describes the changes made to the STDLIB application.</p> +<section><title>STDLIB 1.18.1</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + References to <c>is_constant/1</c> (which was removed in + the R12 release) has been removed from documentation and + code.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-6454 Aux Id: seq10407 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Leave control back to gen_server during supervisor's + restart loop</p> + <p> + When an attempt to restart a child failed, supervisor + would earlier keep the execution flow and try to restart + the child over and over again until it either succeeded + or the restart frequency limit was reached. If none of + these happened, supervisor would hang forever in this + loop.</p> + <p> + This commit adds a timer of 0 ms where the control is + left back to the gen_server which implements the + supervisor. This way any incoming request to the + supervisor will be handled - which could help breaking + the infinite loop - e.g. shutdown request for the + supervisor or for the problematic child.</p> + <p> + This introduces some incompatibilities in stdlib due to + new return values from supervisor: <list> + <item>restart_child/2 can now return + {error,restarting}</item> <item>delete_child/2 can now + return {error,restarting}</item> <item>which_children/1 + returns a list of {Id,Child,Type,Mods}, where Child, in + addition to the old pid() or 'undefined', now also can be + 'restarting'.</item> </list></p> + <p> + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9549</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + If a temporary child's start function returned 'ignore', + then the supervisor would keep it's child specification. + This has been corrected. Child specifications for + non-existing temporary children shall never be kept.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9782 Aux Id: seq11964 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> Use universal time as base in error logger + <p> + Previous conversion used the deprecated + calendar:local_time_to_universal_time/1 </p></p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9854</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Calling a guard test (such as is_list/1) from the + top-level in a guard, would cause a compiler crash if + there was a local definition with the same name. + Corrected to reject the program with an error + message.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9866</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fix the type spec from the doc of binary:part/3 (Thanks + to Ricardo Catalinas Jim�nez)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9920</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Correct spelling of registered (Thanks to Richard + Carlsson)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9925</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Put gb_trees documentation into alphabetical order + (Thanks to Aidan Hobson Sayers)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9929</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fix bug in ETS with <c>compressed</c> option and + insertion of term containing large integers (>2G) on + 64-bit machines. Seen to cause emulator crash. (Thanks to + Diego Llarrull for excellent bug report)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9932</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Add plugin support for alternative name lookup This patch + introduces a new way of locating a behaviour instance: + {via, Module, Name}. (Thanks to Ulf Wiger)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9945</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> The function <c>digraph_utils:condensation/1</c> used + to create a digraph containing loops contradicting the + documentation which states that the created digraph is + free of cycles. This bug has been fixed. (Thanks to + Kostis Sagonas for finding the bug.) </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9953</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> When an escript ends now all printout to standard + output and standard error gets out on the terminal. This + bug has been corrected by changing the behaviour of + erlang:halt/0,1, which should fix the same problem for + other escript-like applications, i.e that data stored in + the output port driver buffers got lost when printing on + a TTY and exiting through erlang:halt/0,1. </p> + <p> The BIF:s erlang:halt/0,1 has gotten improved + semantics and there is a new BIF erlang:halt/2 to + accomplish something like the old semantics. See the + documentation. </p> + <p> Now erlang:halt/0 and erlang:halt/1 with an integer + argument will close all ports and allow all pending async + threads operations to finish before exiting the emulator. + Previously erlang:halt/0 and erlang:halt(0) would just + wait for pending async threads operations but not close + ports. And erlang:halt/1 with a non-zero integer argument + would not even wait for pending async threads operations. + </p> + <p> To roughly the old behaviour, to not wait for ports + and async threads operations when you exit the emulator, + you use erlang:halt/2 with an integer first argument and + an option list containing {flush,false} as the second + argument. Note that now is flushing not dependant of the + exit code, and you can not only flush async threads + operations which we deemed as a strange behaviour anyway. + </p> + <p>Also, erlang:halt/1,2 has gotten a new feature: If the + first argument is the atom 'abort' the emulator is + aborted producing a core dump, if the operating system so + allows. </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9985</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Add escript win32 alternative invocation. escript can now + be started as both "escript.exe" and "escript" (Thanks to + Pierre Rouleau)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9997</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + <section><title>STDLIB 1.18</title> <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml index 9b41672bf1..f9a5e245b4 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>2011</year> + <year>1996</year><year>2012</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml index a7e010a05f..b7b5d497d0 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ <item>Basically the same as UTF-32, but without some Unicode semantics, defined by IEEE and has little use as a separate encoding standard. For all normal (and possibly abnormal) usages, UTF-32 and UCS-4 are interchangeable.</item> </taglist> <p>Certain ranges of characters are left unused and certain ranges are even deemed invalid. The most notable invalid range is 16#D800 - 16#DFFF, as the UTF-16 encoding does not allow for encoding of these numbers. It can be speculated that the UTF-16 encoding standard was, from the beginning, expected to be able to hold all Unicode characters in one 16-bit entity, but then had to be extended, leaving a hole in the Unicode range to cope with backward compatibility.</p> -<p>Additionally, the codepoint 16#FEFF is used for byte order marks (BOM's) and use of that character is not encouraged in other contexts than that. It actually is valid though, as the character "ZWNBS" (Zero Width Non Breaking Space). BOM's are used to identify encodings and byte order for programs where such parameters are not known in advance. Byte order marks are more seldom used than one could expect, put their use is becoming more widely spread as they provide the means for programs to make educated guesses about the Unicode format of a certain file.</p> +<p>Additionally, the codepoint 16#FEFF is used for byte order marks (BOM's) and use of that character is not encouraged in other contexts than that. It actually is valid though, as the character "ZWNBS" (Zero Width Non Breaking Space). BOM's are used to identify encodings and byte order for programs where such parameters are not known in advance. Byte order marks are more seldom used than one could expect, but their use is becoming more widely spread as they provide the means for programs to make educated guesses about the Unicode format of a certain file.</p> </section> <section> <title>Standard Unicode representation in Erlang</title> @@ -210,6 +210,12 @@ Eshell V5.7 (abort with ^G) </section> </section> <section> +<title>Unicode in environment variables and parameters</title> +<p>Environment variables and their interpretation is handled much in the same way as file names. If Unicode file names are enabled, environment variables as well as parameters to the Erlang VM are expected to be in Unicode.</p> +<p>If Unicode file names are enabled, the calls to <seealso marker="kernel:os#os_getenv/0"><c>os:getenv/0</c></seealso>, <seealso marker="kernel:os#os_getenv/1"><c>os:getenv/1</c></seealso> and <seealso marker="kernel:os#os_putenv/2"><c>os:putenv/2</c></seealso> will handle Unicode strings. On Unix-like platforms, the built-in functions will translate environment variables in UTF-8 to/from Unicode strings, possibly with codepoints > 255. On Windows the Unicode versions of the environment system API will be used, also allowing for codepoints > 255.</p> +<p>On Unix-like operating systems, parameters are expected to be UTF-8 without translation if Unicode file names are enabled.</p> +</section> +<section> <title>Unicode-aware modules</title> <p>Most of the modules in Erlang/OTP are of course Unicode-unaware in the sense that they have no notion of Unicode and really shouldn't have. Typically they handle non-textual or byte-oriented data (like <c>gen_tcp</c> etc).</p> <p>Modules that actually handle textual data (like <c>io_lib</c>, <c>string</c> etc) are sometimes subject to conversion or extension to be able to handle Unicode characters.</p> |