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-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/epp.xml64
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_parse.xml10
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/sys.xml73
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml4
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/zip.xml13
5 files changed, 150 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/epp.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/epp.xml
index cf33530395..452341f7d2 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/epp.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/epp.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1996</year><year>2013</year>
+ <year>1996</year><year>2014</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -46,8 +46,10 @@
valid encodings are <c>Latin-1</c> and <c>UTF-8</c> where the
case of the characters can be chosen freely. Examples:</p>
<pre>
-%% coding: utf-8
-%% For this file we have chosen encoding = Latin-1
+%% coding: utf-8</pre>
+ <pre>
+%% For this file we have chosen encoding = Latin-1</pre>
+ <pre>
%% -*- coding: latin-1 -*-</pre>
</description>
<datatypes>
@@ -64,11 +66,29 @@
</datatypes>
<funcs>
<func>
+ <name name="open" arity="1"/>
+ <fsummary>Open a file for preprocessing</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Opens a file for preprocessing.</p>
+ <p>If <c>extra</c> is given in
+ <c><anno>Options</anno></c>, the return value will be
+ <c>{ok, <anno>Epp</anno>, <anno>Extra</anno>}</c> instead
+ of <c>{ok, <anno>Epp</anno>}</c>.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+ <func>
<name name="open" arity="2"/>
+ <fsummary>Open a file for preprocessing</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Equivalent to <c>epp:open([{name, FileName}, {includes, IncludePath}])</c>.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+ <func>
<name name="open" arity="3"/>
<fsummary>Open a file for preprocessing</fsummary>
<desc>
- <p>Opens a file for preprocessing.</p>
+ <p>Equivalent to <c>epp:open([{name, FileName}, {includes, IncludePath},
+ {macros, PredefMacros}])</c>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -89,12 +109,24 @@
</desc>
</func>
<func>
- <name name="parse_file" arity="3"/>
+ <name name="parse_file" arity="2"/>
<fsummary>Preprocess and parse an Erlang source file</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Preprocesses and parses an Erlang source file.
- Note that the tuple <c>{eof, <anno>Line</anno>}</c> returned at end-of-file is
- included as a "form".</p>
+ Note that the tuple <c>{eof, <anno>Line</anno>}</c> returned
+ at end-of-file is included as a "form".</p>
+ <p>If <c>extra</c> is given in
+ <c><anno>Options</anno></c>, the return value will be
+ <c>{ok, [<anno>Form</anno>], <anno>Extra</anno>}</c> instead
+ of <c>{ok, [<anno>Form</anno>]}</c>.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+ <func>
+ <name name="parse_file" arity="3"/>
+ <fsummary>Preprocess and parse an Erlang source file</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Equivalent to <c>epp:parse_file(FileName, [{includes, IncludePath},
+ {macros, PredefMacros}])</c>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -111,7 +143,7 @@
<p>Returns a string representation of an encoding. The string
is recognized by <c>read_encoding/1,2</c>,
<c>read_encoding_from_binary/1,2</c>, and
- <c>set_encoding/1</c> as a valid encoding.</p>
+ <c>set_encoding/1,2</c> as a valid encoding.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -157,6 +189,22 @@
</desc>
</func>
<func>
+ <name name="set_encoding" arity="2"/>
+ <fsummary>Read and set the encoding of an IO device</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Reads the <seealso marker="#encoding">encoding</seealso> from
+ an IO device and sets the encoding of the device
+ accordingly. The position of the IO device referenced by
+ <c><anno>File</anno></c> is not affected. If no valid
+ encoding can be read from the IO device the encoding of the
+ IO device is set to the
+ <seealso marker="#encoding">encoding</seealso> given by
+ <c><anno>Default</anno></c>.</p>
+ <p>Returns the read encoding, or <c>none</c> if no valid
+ encoding was found.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+ <func>
<name name="format_error" arity="1"/>
<fsummary>Format an error descriptor</fsummary>
<desc>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_parse.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_parse.xml
index 2d5aff3c6c..cf0bff48cd 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_parse.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/erl_parse.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<erlref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1996</year><year>2013</year>
+ <year>1996</year><year>2014</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@
</func>
<func>
<name name="abstract" arity="2"/>
+ <type name="encoding_func"/>
<fsummary>Convert an Erlang term into an abstract form</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Converts the Erlang data structure <c><anno>Data</anno></c> into an
@@ -183,7 +184,12 @@
selecting which integer lists will be considered
as strings. The default is to use the encoding returned by
<seealso marker="epp#default_encoding/0">
- <c>epp:default_encoding/0</c></seealso></p>
+ <c>epp:default_encoding/0</c></seealso>.
+ The value <c>none</c> means that no integer lists will be
+ considered as strings. The <c>encoding_func()</c> will be
+ called with one integer of a list at a time, and if it
+ returns <c>true</c> for every integer the list will be
+ considered a string.</p>
</desc>
</func>
</funcs>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/sys.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/sys.xml
index ab8b380f49..a46fa1289f 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/sys.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/sys.xml
@@ -246,6 +246,22 @@
<c>{Module, Id, HandlerState}</c>, where <c>Module</c> is the event handler's module name,
<c>Id</c> is the handler's ID (which is the value <c>false</c> if it was registered without
an ID), and <c>HandlerState</c> is the handler's state.</p>
+ <p>If the callback module exports a <c>system_get_state/1</c> function, it will be called in the
+ target process to get its state. Its argument is the same as the <c>Misc</c> value returned by
+ <seealso marker="#get_status-1">get_status/1,2</seealso>, and the <c>system_get_state/1</c>
+ function is expected to extract the callback module's state from it. The <c>system_get_state/1</c>
+ function must return <c>{ok, State}</c> where <c>State</c> is the callback module's state.</p>
+ <p>If the callback module does not export a <c>system_get_state/1</c> function, <c>get_state/1,2</c>
+ assumes the <c>Misc</c> value is the callback module's state and returns it directly instead.</p>
+ <p>If the callback module's <c>system_get_state/1</c> function crashes or throws an exception, the
+ caller exits with error <c>{callback_failed, {Module, system_get_state}, {Class, Reason}}</c> where
+ <c>Module</c> is the name of the callback module and <c>Class</c> and <c>Reason</c> indicate
+ details of the exception.</p>
+ <p>The <c>system_get_state/1</c> function is primarily useful for user-defined
+ behaviours and modules that implement OTP <seealso marker="#special_process">special
+ processes</seealso>. The <c>gen_server</c>, <c>gen_fsm</c>, and <c>gen_event</c> OTP
+ behaviour modules export this function, and so callback modules for those behaviours
+ need not supply their own.</p>
<p>To obtain more information about a process, including its state, see
<seealso marker="#get_status-1">get_status/1</seealso> and
<seealso marker="#get_status-2">get_status/2</seealso>.</p>
@@ -289,6 +305,28 @@
function means that only the state of the particular event handler it was working on when it
failed or crashed is unchanged; it can still succeed in changing the states of other event
handlers registered in the same <c>gen_event</c> process.</p>
+ <p>If the callback module exports a <c>system_replace_state/2</c> function, it will be called in the
+ target process to replace its state using <c>StateFun</c>. Its two arguments are <c>StateFun</c>
+ and <c>Misc</c>, where <c>Misc</c> is the same as the <c>Misc</c> value returned by
+ <seealso marker="#get_status-1">get_status/1,2</seealso>. A <c>system_replace_state/2</c> function
+ is expected to return <c>{ok, NewState, NewMisc}</c> where <c>NewState</c> is the callback module's
+ new state obtained by calling <c>StateFun</c>, and <c>NewMisc</c> is a possibly new value used to
+ replace the original <c>Misc</c> (required since <c>Misc</c> often contains the callback
+ module's state within it).</p>
+ <p>If the callback module does not export a <c>system_replace_state/2</c> function,
+ <c>replace_state/2,3</c> assumes the <c>Misc</c> value is the callback module's state, passes it
+ to <c>StateFun</c> and uses the return value as both the new state and as the new value of
+ <c>Misc</c>.</p>
+ <p>If the callback module's <c>system_replace_state/2</c> function crashes or throws an exception,
+ the caller exits with error <c>{callback_failed, {Module, system_replace_state}, {Class, Reason}}</c>
+ where <c>Module</c> is the name of the callback module and <c>Class</c> and <c>Reason</c> indicate details
+ of the exception. If the callback module does not provide a <c>system_replace_state/2</c> function and
+ <c>StateFun</c> crashes or throws an exception, the caller exits with error
+ <c>{callback_failed, StateFun, {Class, Reason}}</c>.</p>
+ <p>The <c>system_replace_state/2</c> function is primarily useful for user-defined behaviours and
+ modules that implement OTP <seealso marker="#special_process">special processes</seealso>. The
+ <c>gen_server</c>, <c>gen_fsm</c>, and <c>gen_event</c> OTP behaviour modules export this function,
+ and so callback modules for those behaviours need not supply their own.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
@@ -322,7 +360,7 @@
<section>
<title>Process Implementation Functions</title>
- <p>The following functions are used when implementing a
+ <p><marker id="special_process"/>The following functions are used when implementing a
special process. This is an ordinary process which does not use a
standard behaviour, but a process which understands the standard system messages.</p>
</section>
@@ -375,8 +413,9 @@
process continues the execution, or
<c><anno>Module</anno>:system_terminate(Reason, <anno>Parent</anno>, <anno>Debug</anno>, <anno>Misc</anno>)</c> if
the process should terminate. The <c><anno>Module</anno></c> must export
- <c>system_continue/3</c>, <c>system_terminate/4</c>, and
- <c>system_code_change/4</c> (see below).
+ <c>system_continue/3</c>, <c>system_terminate/4</c>,
+ <c>system_code_change/4</c>, <c>system_get_state/1</c> and
+ <c>system_replace_state/2</c> (see below).
</p>
<p>The <c><anno>Misc</anno></c> argument can be used to save internal data
in a process, for example its state. It is sent to
@@ -444,6 +483,34 @@
defined, the atom <c>undefined</c> is sent.</p>
</desc>
</func>
+ <func>
+ <name>Mod:system_get_state(Misc) -> {ok, State}</name>
+ <fsummary>Called when the process should return its current state</fsummary>
+ <type>
+ <v>Misc = term()</v>
+ <v>State = term()</v>
+ </type>
+ <desc>
+ <p>This function is called from <c>sys:handle_system_msg/6</c> when the process
+ should return a term that reflects its current state. <c>State</c> is the
+ value returned by <c>sys:get_state/2</c>.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+ <func>
+ <name>Mod:system_replace_state(StateFun, Misc) -> {ok, NState, NMisc}</name>
+ <fsummary>Called when the process should replace its current state</fsummary>
+ <type>
+ <v>StateFun = fun((State :: term()) -> NState)</v>
+ <v>Misc = term()</v>
+ <v>NState = term()</v>
+ <v>NMisc = term()</v>
+ </type>
+ <desc>
+ <p>This function is called from <c>sys:handle_system_msg/6</c> when the process
+ should replace its current state. <c>NState</c> is the value returned by
+ <c>sys:replace_state/3</c>.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
</funcs>
</erlref>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml
index 75505d7d84..bebfbd4514 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/unicode_usage.xml
@@ -848,6 +848,7 @@ Eshell V5.10.1 (abort with ^G)
</section>
<section>
<title>Unicode in Environment and Parameters</title>
+ <marker id="unicode_in_environment_and_parameters"/>
<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
@@ -996,7 +997,8 @@ ok
</pre>
</section>
<section>
- <title><marker id="unicode_options_summary"/>Summary of Options</title>
+ <title>Summary of Options</title>
+ <marker id="unicode_options_summary"/>
<p>The Unicode support is controlled by both command line switches,
some standard environment variables and the version of OTP you are
using. Most options affect mainly the way Unicode data is displayed,
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/zip.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/zip.xml
index 66c21da193..48b376743d 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/zip.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/zip.xml
@@ -123,6 +123,18 @@
</taglist>
</desc>
</datatype>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="filename"/>
+ <p>The name of a zip file.</p>
+ </datatype>
+ <datatype><name name="extension"/></datatype>
+ <datatype><name name="extension_spec"/></datatype>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="create_option"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>These options are described in <seealso marker="#zip_options">create/3</seealso>.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
</datatypes>
<funcs>
<func>
@@ -160,6 +172,7 @@
set to <c>["gif", "jpg"]</c> and <c>uncompress</c> is set to
<c>["jpg"]</c>, only files with <c>"gif"</c> as extension will
be compressed. No other files will be compressed.</p>
+ <marker id="zip_options"></marker>
<p>The following options are available:</p>
<taglist>
<tag><c>cooked</c></tag>