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-rw-r--r-- | system/doc/definitions/term.defs | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | system/doc/design_principles/spec_proc.xml | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | system/doc/getting_started/seq_prog.xml | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | system/doc/reference_manual/code_loading.xml | 7 |
4 files changed, 6 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/system/doc/definitions/term.defs b/system/doc/definitions/term.defs index f3d6f865d2..6091a46a20 100644 --- a/system/doc/definitions/term.defs +++ b/system/doc/definitions/term.defs @@ -1,8 +1,6 @@ [{"agent","agent","An entity that terminates a management protocol in the Network Element.","mbj"}, {"API","API","Application Programming Interface. The interface towards an application. Usually this is a set of functions available, but can also be a set of messages sent to or from an application.","mbj"}, {"application","application","A collection of resources which is required to offer a specific service.","mbj"}, -{"appmon","Application Monitor","A graphical node and application process tree viewer. See also appmon.","mbj"}, -{"Appmon","Appmon","Application name for the Application Monitor within Erlang/OTP. A graphical node and process viewer.","mbj"}, {"app callback","application callback module","A module which is called when the application is started, and when it has stopped. Every application has one application callback module.","mbj"}, {"AC","application controller","A process which coordinates all operations on applications.","mbj"}, {"app master","application master","The application master is a process that monitors the application. It is provided by the Erlang run-time system. Every application has an application master process.","mbj"}, @@ -137,7 +135,6 @@ the module Erlang in the application kernel","kenneth"}, {"pattern matching","pattern matching","A basic mechanism in Erlang for assigning values to variables and for controlling the flow of a program.","kenneth"}, {"permanent child","permanent child","A supervised process which always is restarted when it dies.","mbj"}, {"Pid","Pid","Process Identifier. A data type in Erlang for storing process references. The process identity of the process displayed in the line.","kenneth"}, -{"Pman","Pman","Module and application name for the Process Trace Tool.","olin"}, {"point","point","A unit used to indicate the size of a typeface. Equal to 1/72 inches.","jocke"}, {"pointer","pointer","A pointer tells where data is stored. Memory pointers are not used in Erlang.","kent"}, {"port","port","A data type in Erlang. Ports provide the basic mechanism for communication with the external world.","peterl"}, @@ -196,10 +193,8 @@ the module Erlang in the application kernel","kenneth"}, {"sup_bridge","supervisor bridge"," A behaviour used to connect a process, or subsystem, to a supervisor tree.","mbj"}, {"SASLlong","System Architecture Support Libraries (SASL)","An Erlang/OTP application which contains services for error logging, release handling and report browsing.","mbj"}, {".config","system configuration file","A file which specifies configuration parameters for the applications in the system.","mbj"}, {"table lock","table lock","Table locks are locks which are set on whole tables. They may either be read locks or write locks.","hakan"}, -{"Table Visualizer","Table Visualizer","A tool which enables the user to examine ETS and Mnesia tables.","olin"}, {"temporary child","temporary child","A supervised process which is never restarted when it dies.","mbj"}, {"term","term","The super type of all Erlang types.","kenneth"}, -{"Toolbar","Toolbar","A tool that provides an simplistic interface to the other various Erlang/OTP tools","olin"}, {"tools","tools","An application within Erlang/OTP which contains the tools which are not applications themselves.","olin"}, {"transaction","transaction","Transactions groups a set of database accesses into an atomic unit. All transactions has the ACID (atomicity, concistency, isolation and durability) properties.","hakan"}, {"transient child","transient child","A supervised process which is restarted if it dies non-normally.","mbj"}, diff --git a/system/doc/design_principles/spec_proc.xml b/system/doc/design_principles/spec_proc.xml index 96e82c83b3..8de7a5fe03 100644 --- a/system/doc/design_principles/spec_proc.xml +++ b/system/doc/design_principles/spec_proc.xml @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ <p>The module <c>sys</c> contains some functions for simple debugging of processes implemented using behaviours. We use the <c>code_lock</c> example from - the <seealso marker="fsm#ex">gen_event</seealso> chapter to + the <seealso marker="fsm#ex">gen_fsm</seealso> chapter to illustrate this:</p> <pre> % <input>erl</input> diff --git a/system/doc/getting_started/seq_prog.xml b/system/doc/getting_started/seq_prog.xml index 567d032bb5..3830a34e5a 100644 --- a/system/doc/getting_started/seq_prog.xml +++ b/system/doc/getting_started/seq_prog.xml @@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ list_length([First | Rest]) -> or "structs" in other languages and we use lists when we want to represent things which have varying sizes, (i.e. where we would use linked lists in other languages).</p> - <p>Erlang does not have a string date type, instead strings can be + <p>Erlang does not have a string data type, instead strings can be represented by lists of ASCII characters. So the list <c>[97,98,99]</c> is equivalent to "abc". The Erlang shell is "clever" and guesses the what sort of list we mean and outputs it @@ -1031,7 +1031,7 @@ month_length(Year, Month) -> <title>Built In Functions (BIFs)</title> <p>Built in functions BIFs are functions which for some reason is built in to the Erlang virtual machine. BIFs often implement - functionality that is impossible to implement in Erlang or is to + functionality that is impossible to implement in Erlang or is too inefficient to implement in Erlang. Some BIFs can be called by use of the function name only but they are by default belonging to the erlang module so for example the call to the BIF <c>trunc</c> diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/code_loading.xml b/system/doc/reference_manual/code_loading.xml index 10022a5d33..23871dfa83 100644 --- a/system/doc/reference_manual/code_loading.xml +++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/code_loading.xml @@ -121,10 +121,9 @@ loop() -> <title>Running a function when a module is loaded</title> <warning> - <p>This section describes an experimental feature that was - introduced in R13B03, and changed in a backwards-incompatible - way in R13B04. There may be more backward-incompatible changes - in future releases.</p> + <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> </warning> <p>The <c>-on_load()</c> directive names a function that should |