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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/stdlib/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/beam_lib.xml | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/dets.xml | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml | 60 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/ets.xml | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/gb_sets.xml | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/gen_fsm.xml | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/lists.xml | 26 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/make.dep | 40 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml | 165 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/qlc.xml | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml | 83 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/timer.xml | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode.xml | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/zip.xml | 22 |
16 files changed, 300 insertions, 154 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/beam_lib.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/beam_lib.xml index 013e94c393..db65eb3848 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/beam_lib.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/beam_lib.xml @@ -88,7 +88,6 @@ it is recommended that it contains at least 32 characters and that both upper and lower case letters as well as digits and special characters are used.</p> - <p></p> <p>The default type -- and currently the only type -- of crypto algorithm is <c>des3_cbc</c>, three rounds of DES. The key string will be scrambled using <c>erlang:md5/1</c> to generate diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/dets.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/dets.xml index 2512c84e18..215ec154ed 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/dets.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/dets.xml @@ -1006,8 +1006,7 @@ ok <name name="table" arity="2"/> <fsummary>Return a QLC query handle.</fsummary> <desc> - <p><marker id="qlc_table"></marker> - Returns a QLC (Query List + <p><marker id="qlc_table"></marker>Returns a QLC (Query List Comprehension) query handle. The module <c>qlc</c> implements a query language aimed mainly at Mnesia but Ets tables, Dets tables, and lists are also recognized by <c>qlc</c> @@ -1105,7 +1104,7 @@ fun(X) -> {continue, X} end. </pre> <p>Terminate the traversal and return <c>[<anno>Value</anno> | Acc]</c>.</p> </item> </taglist> - <p>Any other value returned by <c><anno>Fun</anno></c> terminates the + <p>Any other value <c><anno>OtherValue</anno></c> returned by <c><anno>Fun</anno></c> terminates the traversal and is immediately returned. </p> </desc> diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml index 929620bb88..fe166dbd01 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_tar.xml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <erlref> <header> <copyright> - <year>2003</year><year>2009</year> + <year>2003</year><year>2011</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -89,9 +89,8 @@ <v>Reason = term()</v> </type> <desc> - <p>The <marker id="add"></marker> -<c>add/3</c> function adds a file to a tar file - that has been opened for writing by + <p>The <marker id="add"></marker><c>add/3</c> function adds + a file to a tar file that has been opened for writing by <seealso marker="#open">open/1</seealso>.</p> <taglist> <tag><c>dereference</c></tag> @@ -138,8 +137,8 @@ <v>TarDescriptor = term()</v> </type> <desc> - <p>The <marker id="close"></marker> -<c>close/1</c> function closes a tar file + <p>The <marker id="close"></marker><c>close/1</c> function + closes a tar file opened by <seealso marker="#open">open/1</seealso>.</p> </desc> </func> @@ -151,11 +150,12 @@ <v>FileList = [Filename|{NameInArchive, binary()},{NameInArchive, Filename}]</v> <v>Filename = filename()</v> <v>NameInArchive = filename()</v> - <v>RetValue = ok|{error,{Name,Reason}} <V>Reason = term()</v> + <v>RetValue = ok|{error,{Name,Reason}}</v> + <v>Reason = term()</v> </type> <desc> - <p>The <marker id="create_2"></marker> -<c>create/2</c> function creates a tar file and + <p>The <marker id="create_2"></marker><c>create/2</c> function + creates a tar file and archives the files whose names are given in <c>FileList</c> into it. The files may either be read from disk or given as binaries.</p> @@ -171,11 +171,11 @@ <v>NameInArchive = filename()</v> <v>OptionList = [Option]</v> <v>Option = compressed|cooked|dereference|verbose</v> - <v>RetValue = ok|{error,{Name,Reason}} <V>Reason = term()</v> + <v>RetValue = ok|{error,{Name,Reason}}</v> + <v>Reason = term()</v> </type> <desc> - <p>The <marker id="create_3"></marker> -<c>create/3</c> function + <p>The <marker id="create_3"></marker><c>create/3</c> function creates a tar file and archives the files whose names are given in <c>FileList</c> into it. The files may either be read from disk or given as binaries.</p> @@ -220,9 +220,8 @@ <v>Reason = term()</v> </type> <desc> - <p>The <marker id="extract_1"></marker> -<c>extract/1</c> function extracts - all files from a tar archive.</p> + <p>The <marker id="extract_1"></marker><c>extract/1</c> function + extracts all files from a tar archive.</p> <p>If the <c>Name</c> argument is given as "<c>{binary,Binary}</c>", the contents of the binary is assumed to be a tar archive. </p> @@ -250,9 +249,8 @@ <v>Reason = term()</v> </type> <desc> - <p>The <marker id="extract_2"></marker> -<c>extract/2</c> function extracts - files from a tar archive.</p> + <p>The <marker id="extract_2"></marker><c>extract/2</c> function + extracts files from a tar archive.</p> <p>If the <c>Name</c> argument is given as "<c>{binary,Binary}</c>", the contents of the binary is assumed to be a tar archive. </p> @@ -322,8 +320,8 @@ <v>Reason = term()</v> </type> <desc> - <p>The <marker id="format_error_1"></marker> -<c>format_error/1</c> converts + <p>The <marker id="format_error_1"></marker><c>format_error/1</c> + function converts an error reason term to a human-readable error message string.</p> </desc> </func> @@ -339,8 +337,8 @@ <v>Reason = term()</v> </type> <desc> - <p>The <marker id="open"></marker> -<c>open/2</c> function creates a tar file for writing. + <p>The <marker id="open"></marker><c>open/2</c> function creates + a tar file for writing. (Any existing file with the same name will be truncated.)</p> <p>By convention, the name of a tar file should end in "<c>.tar</c>". To abide to the convention, you'll need to add "<c>.tar</c>" yourself @@ -373,7 +371,6 @@ You should not rely on the specific contents of the <c>TarDescriptor</c> term, as it may change in future versions as more features are added to the <c>erl_tar</c> module.</p> - <p></p> </warning> </desc> </func> @@ -386,9 +383,8 @@ <v>Reason = term()</v> </type> <desc> - <p>The <marker id="table_1"></marker> -<c>table/1</c> function retrieves - the names of all files in the tar file <c>Name</c>.</p> + <p>The <marker id="table_1"></marker><c>table/1</c> function + retrieves the names of all files in the tar file <c>Name</c>.</p> </desc> </func> <func> @@ -398,9 +394,8 @@ <v>Name = filename()</v> </type> <desc> - <p>The <marker id="table_2"></marker> -<c>table/2</c> function retrieves - the names of all files in the tar file <c>Name</c>.</p> + <p>The <marker id="table_2"></marker><c>table/2</c> function + retrieves the names of all files in the tar file <c>Name</c>.</p> </desc> </func> <func> @@ -410,8 +405,7 @@ <v>Name = filename()</v> </type> <desc> - <p>The <marker id="t_1"></marker> -<c>t/1</c> function prints the names + <p>The <marker id="t_1"></marker><c>t/1</c> function prints the names of all files in the tar file <c>Name</c> to the Erlang shell. (Similar to "<c>tar t</c>".)</p> </desc> @@ -423,8 +417,8 @@ <v>Name = filename()</v> </type> <desc> - <p>The <marker id="tt_1"></marker> -<c>tt/1</c> function prints names and + <p>The <marker id="tt_1"></marker><c>tt/1</c> function prints + names and information about all files in the tar file <c>Name</c> to the Erlang shell. (Similar to "<c>tar tv</c>".)</p> </desc> diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/ets.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/ets.xml index 8c952708c5..efd9514db6 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/ets.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/ets.xml @@ -512,8 +512,10 @@ Error: fun containing local Erlang function calls of the reference counter, keeping track of how many times the table has been fixed by the process.</p> <p>If the table never has been fixed, the call returns - <c>false</c>.</p> - </item> + <c>false</c>.</p></item> + <item><p><c>Item=stats, Value=tuple()</c> <br></br> + Returns internal statistics about set, bag and duplicate_bag tables on an internal format used by OTP test suites. + Not for production use.</p></item> </list> </desc> </func> @@ -658,9 +660,9 @@ ets:is_compiled_ms(Broken).</code> table. The difference being the same as between <c>=:=</c> and <c>==</c>. As an example, one might insert an object with the - <c>integer()</c><c>1</c> as a key in an <c>ordered_set</c> + <c>integer()</c> <c>1</c> as a key in an <c>ordered_set</c> and get the object returned as a result of doing a - <c>lookup/2</c> with the <c>float()</c><c>1.0</c> as the + <c>lookup/2</c> with the <c>float()</c> <c>1.0</c> as the key to search for.</p> <p>If the table is of type <c>set</c> or <c>ordered_set</c>, the function returns either the empty list or a list with one @@ -943,7 +945,7 @@ ets:select(Table,MatchSpec),</code> table is named or not. If one or more options are left out, the default values are used. This means that not specifying any options (<c>[]</c>) is the same as specifying - <c>[set,protected,{keypos,1},{heir,none},{write_concurrency,false},{read_concurrency,false}]</c>.</p> + <c>[set, protected, {keypos,1}, {heir,none}, {write_concurrency,false}, {read_concurrency,false}]</c>.</p> <list type="bulleted"> <item> <p><c>set</c> @@ -960,7 +962,7 @@ ets:select(Table,MatchSpec),</code> <c>ordered_set</c> tables regard keys as equal when they <em>compare equal</em>, not only when they match. This means that to an <c>ordered_set</c>, the - <c>integer()</c><c>1</c> and the <c>float()</c><c>1.0</c> are regarded as equal. This also means that the + <c>integer()</c> <c>1</c> and the <c>float()</c> <c>1.0</c> are regarded as equal. This also means that the key used to lookup an element not necessarily <em>matches</em> the key in the elements returned, if <c>float()</c>'s and <c>integer()</c>'s are mixed in diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/gb_sets.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/gb_sets.xml index 38de51322f..f91fac9c82 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/gb_sets.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/gb_sets.xml @@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ and do the same thing in the <c>sets</c> and <c>ordsets</c> modules. That is, by only changing the module name for each call, you can try out different set representations.</p> - <p></p> <list type="bulleted"> <item> <p><c>add_element/2</c></p> diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/gen_fsm.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/gen_fsm.xml index d15383c621..421eeb4fd3 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/gen_fsm.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/gen_fsm.xml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <erlref> <header> <copyright> - <year>1996</year><year>2010</year> + <year>1996</year><year>2011</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -430,7 +430,6 @@ gen_fsm:sync_send_all_state_event -----> Module:handle_sync_event/4 denote a state of the state machine. <em>state data</em> is used to denote the internal state of the Erlang process which implements the state machine.</p> - <p></p> </section> <funcs> <func> @@ -438,7 +437,7 @@ gen_fsm:sync_send_all_state_event -----> Module:handle_sync_event/4 <fsummary>Initialize process and internal state name and state data.</fsummary> <type> <v>Args = term()</v> - <v>Return = {ok,StateName,StateData} | {ok,StateName,StateData,Timeout}</v> + <v>Result = {ok,StateName,StateData} | {ok,StateName,StateData,Timeout}</v> <v> | {ok,StateName,StateData,hibernate}</v> <v> | {stop,Reason} | ignore</v> <v> StateName = atom()</v> @@ -639,9 +638,9 @@ gen_fsm:sync_send_all_state_event -----> Module:handle_sync_event/4 <v>StateName = atom()</v> <v>StateData = term()</v> <v>Result = {next_state,NextStateName,NewStateData}</v> - <v> > | {next_state,NextStateName,NewStateData,Timeout}</v> - <v> > | {next_state,NextStateName,NewStateData,hibernate}</v> - <v> > | {stop,Reason,NewStateData}</v> + <v> | {next_state,NextStateName,NewStateData,Timeout}</v> + <v> | {next_state,NextStateName,NewStateData,hibernate}</v> + <v> | {stop,Reason,NewStateData}</v> <v> NextStateName = atom()</v> <v> NewStateData = term()</v> <v> Timeout = int()>0 | infinity</v> diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/lists.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/lists.xml index 6f3ed7af98..7042c84437 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/lists.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/lists.xml @@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ flatmap(Fun, List1) -> <func> <name name="keydelete" arity="3"/> <fsummary>Delete an element from a list of tuples</fsummary> - <type_desc variable="N">1..tuple_size(Tuple)</type_desc> + <type_desc variable="N">1..tuple_size(<anno>Tuple</anno>)</type_desc> <desc> <p>Returns a copy of <c><anno>TupleList1</anno></c> where the first occurrence of a tuple whose <c><anno>N</anno></c>th element compares equal to @@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ flatmap(Fun, List1) -> <func> <name name="keymap" arity="3"/> <fsummary>Map a function over a list of tuples</fsummary> - <type_desc variable="N">1..tuple_size(Tuple)</type_desc> + <type_desc variable="N">1..tuple_size(<anno>Tuple</anno>)</type_desc> <desc> <p>Returns a list of tuples where, for each tuple in <c><anno>TupleList1</anno></c>, the <c><anno>N</anno></c>th element <c><anno>Term1</anno></c> of the tuple @@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ flatmap(Fun, List1) -> <func> <name name="keymerge" arity="3"/> <fsummary>Merge two key-sorted lists of tuples</fsummary> - <type_desc variable="N">1..tuple_size(Tuple)</type_desc> + <type_desc variable="N">1..tuple_size(<anno>Tuple</anno>)</type_desc> <desc> <p>Returns the sorted list formed by merging <c><anno>TupleList1</anno></c> and <c><anno>TupleList2</anno></c>. The merge is performed on @@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ flatmap(Fun, List1) -> <func> <name name="keyreplace" arity="4"/> <fsummary>Replace an element in a list of tuples</fsummary> - <type_desc variable="N">1..tuple_size(Tuple)</type_desc> + <type_desc variable="N">1..tuple_size(<anno>Tuple</anno>)</type_desc> <desc> <p>Returns a copy of <c><anno>TupleList1</anno></c> where the first occurrence of a <c>T</c> tuple whose <c><anno>N</anno></c>th element @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ flatmap(Fun, List1) -> <func> <name name="keysort" arity="2"/> <fsummary>Sort a list of tuples</fsummary> - <type_desc variable="N">1..tuple_size(Tuple)</type_desc> + <type_desc variable="N">1..tuple_size(<anno>Tuple</anno>)</type_desc> <desc> <p>Returns a list containing the sorted elements of the list <c><anno>TupleList1</anno></c>. Sorting is performed on the <c><anno>N</anno></c>th @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ flatmap(Fun, List1) -> <func> <name name="keystore" arity="4"/> <fsummary>Store an element in a list of tuples</fsummary> - <type_desc variable="N">1..tuple_size(Tuple)</type_desc> + <type_desc variable="N">1..tuple_size(<anno>Tuple</anno>)</type_desc> <desc> <p>Returns a copy of <c><anno>TupleList1</anno></c> where the first occurrence of a tuple <c>T</c> whose <c><anno>N</anno></c>th element @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ flatmap(Fun, List1) -> <func> <name name="keytake" arity="3"/> <fsummary>Extract an element from a list of tuples</fsummary> - <type_desc variable="N">1..tuple_size(Tuple)</type_desc> + <type_desc variable="N">1..tuple_size(<anno>Tuple</anno>)</type_desc> <desc> <p>Searches the list of tuples <c><anno>TupleList1</anno></c> for a tuple whose <c><anno>N</anno></c>th element compares equal to <c><anno>Key</anno></c>. @@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ flatmap(Fun, List1) -> <func> <name name="nth" arity="2"/> <fsummary>Return the Nth element of a list</fsummary> - <type_desc variable="N">1..length(List)</type_desc> + <type_desc variable="N">1..length(<anno>List</anno>)</type_desc> <desc> <p>Returns the <c><anno>N</anno></c>th element of <c><anno>List</anno></c>. For example:</p> <pre> @@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ c</pre> <func> <name name="nthtail" arity="2"/> <fsummary>Return the Nth tail of a list</fsummary> - <type_desc variable="N">0..length(List)</type_desc> + <type_desc variable="N">0..length(<anno>List</anno>)</type_desc> <desc> <p>Returns the <c><anno>N</anno></c>th tail of <c><anno>List</anno></c>, that is, the sublist of <c><anno>List</anno></c> starting at <c><anno>N</anno>+1</c> and continuing up to @@ -630,7 +630,7 @@ length(lists:seq(From, To, Incr)) == (To-From+Incr) div Incr</code> <func> <name name="split" arity="2"/> <fsummary>Split a list into two lists</fsummary> - <type_desc variable="N">0..length(List1)</type_desc> + <type_desc variable="N">0..length(<anno>List1</anno>)</type_desc> <desc> <p>Splits <c><anno>List1</anno></c> into <c><anno>List2</anno></c> and <c><anno>List3</anno></c>. <c><anno>List2</anno></c> contains the first <c><anno>N</anno></c> elements and @@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ splitwith(Pred, List) -> <func> <name name="sublist" arity="3"/> <fsummary>Return a sub-list starting at a given position and with a given number of elements</fsummary> - <type_desc variable="Start">1..(length(List1)+1)</type_desc> + <type_desc variable="Start">1..(length(<anno>List1</anno>)+1)</type_desc> <desc> <p>Returns the sub-list of <c><anno>List1</anno></c> starting at <c><anno>Start</anno></c> and with (max) <c><anno>Len</anno></c> elements. It is not an error for @@ -732,7 +732,7 @@ splitwith(Pred, List) -> <func> <name name="ukeymerge" arity="3"/> <fsummary>Merge two key-sorted lists of tuples, removing duplicates</fsummary> - <type_desc variable="N">1..tuple_size(Tuple)</type_desc> + <type_desc variable="N">1..tuple_size(<anno>Tuple</anno>)</type_desc> <desc> <p>Returns the sorted list formed by merging <c><anno>TupleList1</anno></c> and <c><anno>TupleList2</anno></c>. The merge is performed on the @@ -746,7 +746,7 @@ splitwith(Pred, List) -> <func> <name name="ukeysort" arity="2"/> <fsummary>Sort a list of tuples, removing duplicates</fsummary> - <type_desc variable="N">1..tuple_size(Tuple)</type_desc> + <type_desc variable="N">1..tuple_size(<anno>Tuple</anno>)</type_desc> <desc> <p>Returns a list containing the sorted elements of the list <c><anno>TupleList1</anno></c> where all but the first tuple of the diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/make.dep b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/make.dep deleted file mode 100644 index 48ee6209ef..0000000000 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/make.dep +++ /dev/null @@ -1,40 +0,0 @@ -# ---------------------------------------------------- -# >>>> Do not edit this file <<<< -# This file was automaticly generated by -# /home/otp/bin/docdepend -# ---------------------------------------------------- - - -# ---------------------------------------------------- -# TeX files that the DVI file depend on -# ---------------------------------------------------- - -book.dvi: array.tex base64.tex beam_lib.tex book.tex \ - c.tex calendar.tex dets.tex dict.tex digraph.tex \ - digraph_utils.tex epp.tex erl_eval.tex erl_expand_records.tex \ - erl_id_trans.tex erl_internal.tex erl_lint.tex \ - erl_parse.tex erl_pp.tex erl_scan.tex erl_tar.tex \ - ets.tex file_sorter.tex filelib.tex filename.tex \ - gb_sets.tex gb_trees.tex gen_event.tex gen_fsm.tex \ - gen_server.tex io.tex io_lib.tex io_protocol.tex \ - lib.tex lists.tex log_mf_h.tex math.tex ms_transform.tex \ - orddict.tex ordsets.tex part.tex pg.tex pool.tex \ - proc_lib.tex proplists.tex qlc.tex queue.tex \ - random.tex re.tex ref_man.tex regexp.tex sets.tex \ - shell.tex shell_default.tex slave.tex sofs.tex \ - stdlib_app.tex string.tex supervisor.tex supervisor_bridge.tex \ - sys.tex timer.tex unicode.tex unicode_usage.tex \ - win32reg.tex zip.tex - -# ---------------------------------------------------- -# Source inlined when transforming from source to LaTeX -# ---------------------------------------------------- - -book.tex: ref_man.xml - -# ---------------------------------------------------- -# Pictures that the DVI file depend on -# ---------------------------------------------------- - -book.dvi: ushell1.ps - diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml index 60c0b91212..d9c220b996 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/notes.xml @@ -30,6 +30,168 @@ </header> <p>This document describes the changes made to the STDLIB application.</p> +<section><title>STDLIB 1.17.5</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + erl_tar:extract failed when executed inside a directory + with some parent directory to which the user has no read + access. This has been corrected.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9368</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> A bug in <c>erl_scan:set_attribute/3</c> has been + fixed. </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9412</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> The contract of <c>io_lib:fread()</c> has been + corrected. </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9413 Aux Id: seq11873 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + A crash in io_lib:fread/2 when end of input data was + encountered while trying to match literal characters, + which should return {more,_,_,_} but instead crashed, has + been corrected. Reported by Klas Johansson.</p> + <p> + A similar peculiarity for io:fread when encountering end + of file before any field data has also been corrected.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9439</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> The contract of <c>timer:now_diff()</c> has been + corrected. (Thanks to Alex Morarash). </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9450</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fix minor typo in gen_fsm documentation (Thanks to Haitao + Li)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9456</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>The contracts of <c>zip:zip_list_dir/1</c> and + <c>zip:zip_get/2</c> have been corrected. </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9471 Aux Id: seq11887, OTP-9472 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> A bug in <c>zip:zip_open()</c> has been fixed. </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9472 Aux Id: seq11887, OTP-9471 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fix trivial documentation errors(Thanks to Matthias Lang)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9498</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Add a proplist() type</p> + <p> + Recently I was adding specs to an API and found that + there is no canonical proplist() type defined. (Thanks to + Ryan Zezeski)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9499</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + fix supervisors restarting temporary children</p> + <p> + In the current implementation of supervisors, temporary + children should never be restarted. However, when a + temporary child is restarted as part of a one_for_all or + rest_for_one strategy where the failing process is not + the temporary child, the supervisor still tries to + restart it.</p> + <p> + Because the supervisor doesn't keep some of the MFA + information of temporary children, this causes the + supervisor to hit its restart limit and crash.</p> + <p> + This patch fixes the behaviour by inserting a clause in + terminate_children/2-3 (private function) that will omit + temporary children when building a list of killed + processes, to avoid having the supervisor trying to + restart them again.</p> + <p> + Only supervisors in need of restarting children used the + list, so the change should be of no impact for the + functions that called terminate_children/2-3 only to kill + all children.</p> + <p> + The documentation has been modified to make this + behaviour more explicit. (Thanks to Fred Hebert)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9502</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + fix broken edoc annotations (Thanks to Richard Carlsson)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9516</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> XML files have been corrected. </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9550 Aux Id: OTP-9541 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Handle rare race in the crypto key server functionality</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9586</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> Types and specifications have been added. </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9356</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> The contracts of the <c>queue</c> module have been + modified. </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9418</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> Contracts in STDLIB and Kernel have been improved and + type errors have been corrected. </p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9485</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Types for several BIFs have been extended/corrected. Also + the types for types for <c>lists:keyfind/3</c>, + <c>lists:keysearch/3</c>, and <c>lists:keyemember/3</c> + have been corrected. The incorrect/incomplete types could + cause false dialyzer warnings.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-9496</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + <section><title>STDLIB 1.17.4</title> <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> @@ -2632,7 +2794,7 @@ that is, also when starting a gen_server, gen_fsm etc. </p> <p>This limitation has now been properly documented and the behavior of the <c>gen_fsm</c>, <c>gen_server</c>, and - <c>proc_lib</c><c>start</c> and <c>start_link</c> + <c>proc_lib</c> <c>start</c> and <c>start_link</c> functions when providing this option has been changed from hanging indefinitely to failing with reason <c>badarg</c>.</p> @@ -2749,7 +2911,6 @@ <c>join</c> option that can be used to force QLC to use a particular kind of join in some QLC expression.</p> <p>Several other changes have also been included:</p> - <p></p> <list type="bulleted"> <item> <p>The new <c>tmpdir</c> option of <c>cursor/2</c>, diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/qlc.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/qlc.xml index 6a45ade447..ce50631ca9 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/qlc.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/qlc.xml @@ -688,7 +688,6 @@ ets:match_spec_run(ets:lookup(86033, {2,2}), </datatype> <datatype> <name name="tmp_file_usage"></name> - <desc><p></p></desc> </datatype> </datatypes> 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 009aa60faa..cddb55e5c5 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml @@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ 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> - <p></p> <p>A supervisor can have one of the following <em>restart strategies</em>:</p> <list type="bulleted"> <item> @@ -94,6 +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 @@ -150,9 +153,12 @@ child_spec() = {Id,StartFunc,Restart,Shutdown,Type,Modules} <p><c>Restart</c> defines when a terminated child process should be restarted. A <c>permanent</c> child process should always be restarted, a <c>temporary</c> child process should - never be restarted and a <c>transient</c> child process - should be restarted only if it terminates abnormally, i.e. - with another exit reason than <c>normal</c>.</p> + never be restarted (even when the supervisor's restart strategy + is <c>rest_for_one</c> or <c>one_for_all</c> and a sibling's + death causes the temporary process to be terminated) and a + <c>transient</c> child process should be restarted only if + it terminates abnormally, i.e. with another exit reason + than <c>normal</c>, <c>shutdown</c> or <c>{shutdown,Term}</c>.</p> </item> <item> <p><c>Shutdown</c> defines how a child process should be @@ -167,7 +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, @@ -341,14 +355,23 @@ child_spec() = {Id,StartFunc,Restart,Shutdown,Type,Modules} <desc> <p>Tells the supervisor <c><anno>SupRef</anno></c> to terminate the given child.</p> + <p>If the supervisor is not <c>simple_one_for_one</c>, - <c><anno>Id</anno></c> must be the child specification identifier. The - process, if there is one, is terminated but the child - specification is kept by the supervisor. The child process - may later be restarted by the supervisor. The child process - can also be restarted explicitly by calling + <c><anno>Id</anno></c> must be the child specification + identifier. The process, if there is one, is terminated and, + unless it is a temporary child, the child specification is + kept by the supervisor. The child process may later be + restarted by the supervisor. The child process can also be + restarted explicitly by calling <c>restart_child/2</c>. Use <c>delete_child/2</c> to remove the child specification.</p> + + <p>If the child is temporary, the child specification is deleted as + soon as the process terminates. This means + that <c>delete_child/2</c> has no meaning + and <c>restart_child/2</c> can not be used for these + children.</p> + <p>If the supervisor is <c>simple_one_for_one</c>, <c><anno>Id</anno></c> must be the child process' <c>pid()</c>. I the specified process is alive, but is not a child of the given @@ -385,26 +408,34 @@ child_spec() = {Id,StartFunc,Restart,Shutdown,Type,Modules} <name name="restart_child" arity="2"/> <fsummary>Restart a terminated child process belonging to a supervisor.</fsummary> <desc> - <p>Tells the supervisor <c><anno>SupRef</anno></c> to restart a child process - corresponding to the child specification identified by - <c><anno>Id</anno></c>. The child specification must exist and - the corresponding child process must not be running.</p> - <p>See <seealso marker="#SupRef"><c>start_child/2</c></seealso> for a description of - <c>SupRef</c>.</p> - <p>If the child specification identified by <c><anno>Id</anno></c> does not - exist, the function returns <c>{error,not_found}</c>. If - the child specification exists but the corresponding process - is already running, the function returns + <p>Tells the supervisor <c><anno>SupRef</anno></c> to restart + a child process corresponding to the child specification + identified by <c><anno>Id</anno></c>. The child + specification must exist and the corresponding child process + must not be running.</p> + <p>Note that for temporary children, the child specification + is automatically deleted when the child terminates, and thus + it is not possible to restart such children.</p> + <p>See <seealso marker="#SupRef"><c>start_child/2</c></seealso> + for a description of <c>SupRef</c>.</p> + <p>If the child specification identified + by <c><anno>Id</anno></c> does not exist, the function + returns <c>{error,not_found}</c>. If the child specification + exists but the corresponding process is already running, the + function returns <c>{error,running}</c>.</p> - <p>If the child process start function returns <c>{ok,<anno>Child</anno>}</c> - or <c>{ok,<anno>Child</anno>,<anno>Info</anno>}</c>, the pid is added to the supervisor - and the function returns the same value.</p> + <p>If the child process start function + returns <c>{ok,<anno>Child</anno>}</c> + or <c>{ok,<anno>Child</anno>,<anno>Info</anno>}</c>, the pid + is added to the supervisor and the function returns the same + value.</p> <p>If the child process start function returns <c>ignore</c>, the pid remains set to <c>undefined</c> and the function returns <c>{ok,undefined}</c>.</p> - <p>If the child process start function returns an error tuple or - an erroneous value, or if it fails, the function returns - <c>{error,<anno>Error</anno>}</c> where <c><anno>Error</anno></c> is a term containing + <p>If the child process start function returns an error tuple + or an erroneous value, or if it fails, the function returns + <c>{error,<anno>Error</anno>}</c> + where <c><anno>Error</anno></c> is a term containing information about the error.</p> </desc> </func> diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/timer.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/timer.xml index b741ab7db1..0c1e398dc4 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/timer.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/timer.xml @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ <name name="send_after" arity="3"/> <fsummary>Send <c>Message</c>to <c>Pid</c>after a specified <c>Time</c>.</fsummary> <desc> - <p></p> + <p> <taglist> <tag><c>send_after/3</c></tag> <item> @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ <p>Same as <c>send_after(<anno>Time</anno>, self(), <anno>Message</anno>)</c>.</p> </item> </taglist> + </p> </desc> </func> <func> @@ -107,7 +108,7 @@ <name name="exit_after" arity="3"/> <fsummary>Send an exit signal with <c>Reason</c>after a specified <c>Time</c>.</fsummary> <desc> - <p></p> + <p> <taglist> <tag><c>exit_after/3</c></tag> <item> @@ -128,6 +129,7 @@ <p>Same as <c>exit_after(<anno>Time</anno>, self(), kill)</c>. </p> </item> </taglist> + </p> </desc> </func> <func> @@ -144,7 +146,7 @@ <name name="send_interval" arity="3"/> <fsummary>Send <c>Message</c>repeatedly at intervals of <c>Time</c>.</fsummary> <desc> - <p></p> + <p> <taglist> <tag><c>send_interval/3</c></tag> <item> @@ -158,6 +160,7 @@ <p>Same as <c>send_interval(<anno>Time</anno>, self(), <anno>Message</anno>)</c>.</p> </item> </taglist> + </p> </desc> </func> <func> @@ -188,7 +191,7 @@ Function, Arguments)</c> or <c>apply(Fun, Arguments)</c></fsummary> <type_desc variable="Time">In microseconds</type_desc> <desc> - <p></p> + <p> <taglist> <tag><c>tc/3</c></tag> <item> @@ -209,6 +212,7 @@ </item> </taglist> + </p> </desc> </func> <func> @@ -254,7 +258,6 @@ <section> <title>Examples</title> <p>This example illustrates how to print out "Hello World!" in 5 seconds:</p> - <p></p> <pre> 1> <input>timer:apply_after(5000, io, format, ["~nHello World!~n", []]).</input> {ok,TRef} 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> diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml index 416df1f02c..0fa7de0a5c 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ <header> <copyright> <year>1999</year> - <year>2010</year> + <year>2011</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ <tag>UCS-4</tag> <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 whole in the Unicode range to cope with backward compatibility.</p> +<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> </section> <section> diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/zip.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/zip.xml index b03fc7f4e2..cf0d581352 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/zip.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/zip.xml @@ -243,12 +243,10 @@ <name name="extract" arity="2"/> <fsummary>Extract files from a zip archive</fsummary> <desc> - <p>The <marker id="unzip_1"></marker> -<c>unzip/1</c> function extracts - all files from a zip archive. The - <marker id="unzip_2"></marker> -<c>unzip/2</c> function provides options - to extract some files, and more.</p> + <p>The <marker id="unzip_1"></marker><c>unzip/1</c> function extracts + all files from a zip archive. + The <marker id="unzip_2"></marker><c>unzip/2</c> function provides + options to extract some files, and more.</p> <p>If the <c><anno>Archive</anno></c> argument is given as a binary, the contents of the binary is assumed to be a zip archive, otherwise it should be a filename.</p> @@ -413,8 +411,8 @@ <name name="zip_open" arity="2"/> <fsummary>Open an archive and return a handle to it</fsummary> <desc> - <p>The <marker id="zip_open"></marker> -<c>zip_open</c> function opens a + <p>The <marker id="zip_open"></marker><c>zip_open</c> function + opens a zip archive, and reads and saves its directory. This means that subsequently reading files from the archive will be faster than unzipping files one at a time with <c>unzip</c>.</p> @@ -436,8 +434,7 @@ <name name="zip_get" arity="2"/> <fsummary>Extract files from an open archive</fsummary> <desc> - <p>The <marker id="zip_get"></marker> -<c>zip_get</c> function extracts + <p>The <marker id="zip_get"></marker><c>zip_get</c> function extracts one or all files from an open archive.</p> <p>The files will be unzipped to memory or to file, depending on the options given to the <c>zip_open</c> function when the @@ -448,9 +445,8 @@ <name name="zip_close" arity="1"/> <fsummary>Close an open archive</fsummary> <desc> - <p>The <marker id="zip_close"></marker> -<c>zip_close/1</c> function closes - a zip archive, previously opened with <c>zip_open</c>. All + <p>The <marker id="zip_close"></marker><c>zip_close/1</c> function + closes a zip archive, previously opened with <c>zip_open</c>. All resources are closed, and the handle should not be used after closing.</p> </desc> |