From c4759bc60c8e5db27c070b9e826ddc0f9626b094 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sverker Eriksson <sverker@erlang.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 17:51:23 +0200
Subject: kernel: Fix net_kernel:connect_node/1 to local node

to be no-op and return true
as it always has before OTP-21.0.
---
 lib/kernel/doc/src/net_kernel.xml | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'lib/kernel/doc/src')

diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/net_kernel.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/net_kernel.xml
index a30d28d55a..d3bd7365e2 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/net_kernel.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/net_kernel.xml
@@ -102,8 +102,10 @@ $ <input>erl -sname foobar</input></pre>
       <fsummary>Establish a connection to a node.</fsummary>
       <desc>
         <p>Establishes a connection to <c><anno>Node</anno></c>. Returns
-          <c>true</c> if successful, <c>false</c> if not, and <c>ignored</c>
-          if the local node is not alive.</p>
+          <c>true</c> if a connection was established or was already
+	  established or if <c><anno>Node</anno></c> is the local node
+	  itself. Returns <c>false</c> if the connection attempt failed, and
+	  <c>ignored</c> if the local node is not alive.</p>
       </desc>
     </func>
 
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