From fa44f865c3fc6253cf4691cf94839c303a3ee40f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sverker Eriksson Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 20:32:39 +0100 Subject: erts: Make erlang:purge_module/1 safe Problem: erlang:purge_module/1 is not safe in the sense that very bad things may happen if the code to be purged is still referred to by live processes. Introduce erts_internal:purge_module which is the same as the old erlang:purge_module BIF (except it returns false if no such old module). Implement erlang:purge_module in Erlang and let it invoke erts_code_purger for safe purging where all clogging processes first are killed. --- erts/emulator/beam/bif.tab | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'erts/emulator/beam/bif.tab') diff --git a/erts/emulator/beam/bif.tab b/erts/emulator/beam/bif.tab index 0aee8681c6..3b95ec508c 100644 --- a/erts/emulator/beam/bif.tab +++ b/erts/emulator/beam/bif.tab @@ -125,7 +125,6 @@ bif erlang:process_flag/3 bif erlang:process_info/1 bif erlang:process_info/2 bif erlang:processes/0 -bif erlang:purge_module/1 bif erlang:put/2 bif erlang:register/2 bif erlang:registered/0 @@ -643,6 +642,7 @@ bif erts_debug:map_info/1 # bif erlang:copy_literals/2 +bif erts_internal:purge_module/1 bif binary:split/2 bif binary:split/3 bif erts_debug:size_shared/1 -- cgit v1.2.3