From 2f029aa2df32c2d0c1fdd2801ed52cbadafd56f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sverker Eriksson
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 21:17:19 +0200
Subject: erts: Remove obsolete paragraph about ERL_NO_VFORK
from erlang:open_port/2 docs.
---
erts/doc/src/erlang.xml | 7 -------
1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
(limited to 'erts/doc')
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index 29b1d106cd..73800687b7 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -3772,13 +3772,6 @@ RealSystem = system + MissedSystem
If found, that driver is started. A driver runs in the Erlang
work space, which means that it is linked with the Erlang
runtime system.
- When starting external programs on Solaris, the system
- call vfork is used in preference to fork
- for performance reasons, although it has a history of
- being less robust. If there are problems using
- vfork, setting environment variable
- ERL_NO_VFORK to any value causes fork
- to be used instead.
For external programs, PATH is searched
(or an equivalent method is used to find programs,
depending on the OS). This is done by invoking
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