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-rw-r--r--system/doc/top/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--system/doc/top/templates/index.html.src10
3 files changed, 26 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/code_loading.xml b/system/doc/reference_manual/code_loading.xml
index 23871dfa83..b5b5704df5 100644
--- a/system/doc/reference_manual/code_loading.xml
+++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/code_loading.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2003</year><year>2013</year>
+ <year>2003</year><year>2014</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -121,9 +121,22 @@ loop() ->
<title>Running a function when a module is loaded</title>
<warning>
- <p>We recommend that the feature described in this section is to
- be used only for loading NIF libraries. For other usages this
- feature should be considered experimental.</p>
+ <p>The <c>on_load</c> feature should be considered experimental
+ as there are a number of known weak points in current semantics
+ which therefore might also change in future releases:</p>
+ <list>
+ <item><p>Doing external call in on_load to the module itself
+ leads to deadlock.</p></item>
+ <item><p>At module upgrade, other processes calling the module
+ get suspended waiting for on_load to finish. This can be very bad
+ for applications with demands on realtime characteristics.</p></item>
+ <item><p>At module upgrade, no rollback is done if the on_load function fails.
+ The system will be left in a bad limbo state without any working
+ and reachable instance of the module.</p></item>
+ </list>
+ <p>The problems with module upgrade described above could be fixed in future
+ releases by changing the behaviour to not make the module reachable until
+ after the on_load function has successfully returned.</p>
</warning>
<p>The <c>-on_load()</c> directive names a function that should
diff --git a/system/doc/top/Makefile b/system/doc/top/Makefile
index 79fd875d68..319f08f010 100644
--- a/system/doc/top/Makefile
+++ b/system/doc/top/Makefile
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ $(INDEX_SCRIPT): $(INDEX_SRC)
$(ERLC) -o$(EBIN) +warn_unused_vars $<
# We don't list toc_*.html as targets because we don't know
-$(HTMLDIR)/index.html + $(HTMLDIR)/applications.html: $(INDEX_SCRIPT)
+$(HTMLDIR)/index.html + $(HTMLDIR)/applications.html: $(INDEX_SCRIPT) $(TEMPLATES)
echo "Generating index $@"
# Check if we are building the index from source or an installed release
if test "$$RELEASE_ROOT" = "" ; then \
diff --git a/system/doc/top/templates/index.html.src b/system/doc/top/templates/index.html.src
index a176bc9a14..7acdadbf8a 100644
--- a/system/doc/top/templates/index.html.src
+++ b/system/doc/top/templates/index.html.src
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
<!--
%CopyrightBegin%
-Copyright Ericsson AB 2009-2013. All Rights Reserved.
+Copyright Ericsson AB 2009-2014. All Rights Reserved.
The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
@@ -104,10 +104,16 @@ In addition to the documentation here Erlang is described in several recent book
</p>
<ul>
<li>
+<a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025818.do">"Introducing Erlang"</a> from O'Reilly.
+</li>
+<li>
+<a href="http://www.nostarch.com/erlang">"Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!"</a> from nostarch.
+</li>
+<li>
<a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596518189">"Erlang Programming"</a> from O'Reilly.
</li>
<li>
-<a href="http://www.pragprog.com/titles/jaerlang">"Programming Erlang"</a> from Pragmatic.
+<a href="http://www.pragprog.com/book/jaerlang2/programming-erlang">"Programming Erlang"</a> from Pragmatic.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.manning.com/logan">"Erlang and OTP in Action"</a> from Manning.