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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
index 1a64b7a2af..9021d02ade 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
@@ -294,10 +294,10 @@ child_spec() = {Id,StartFunc,Restart,Shutdown,Type,Modules}
is a term with information about the error, and the supervisor
terminates with reason <c>Term</c>.</p>
<p>If any child process start function fails or returns an error
- tuple or an erroneous value, the function returns
- <c>{error, {shutdown, Reason}}</c> and the supervisor terminates all
- started child processes and then itself with reason
- <c>shutdown</c>.</p>
+ tuple or an erroneous value, the supervisor will first terminate
+ all already started child processes with reason <c>shutdown</c>
+ and then terminate itself and return
+ <c>{error, {shutdown, Reason}}</c>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>