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| -rw-r--r-- | system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml b/system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml index 06ca44a9f6..a2e0d95408 100644 --- a/system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml +++ b/system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml @@ -312,12 +312,17 @@ child_spec() = #{id => child_id(), % mandatory signal back. If no exit signal is received within the specified time, the child process is unconditionally terminated using <c>exit(Child, kill)</c>.</item> - <item>If the child process is another supervisor, it is to be + <item>If the child process is another supervisor, it must be set to <c>infinity</c> to give the subtree enough time to shut down. It is also allowed to set it to <c>infinity</c>, - if the child process is a worker. See the warning below:</item> + if the child process is a worker. See the warning below:</item> </list> <warning> + <p>Setting the shutdown time to anything other + than <c>infinity</c> for a child of type <c>supervisor</c> + can cause a race condition where the child in question + unlinks its own children, but fails to terminate them + before it is killed.</p> <p>Be careful when setting the shutdown time to <c>infinity</c> when the child process is a worker. Because, in this situation, the termination of the supervision tree depends on the |