From c2b6342cb57df5925acbacff0aea74358c9a5ffb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tomas Pihl
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:01:43 +0200
Subject: Have supervisor send errors up the chain
If a child fails to start, supervisor relies upon error_logger which does not
work when IO is inhibited. Instead pass the error up the chain and let someone
else use a proper Reason for any possible printouts.
---
lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
(limited to 'lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml')
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
index f9a5e245b4..1a64b7a2af 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ child_spec() = {Id,StartFunc,Restart,Shutdown,Type,Modules}
terminates with reason Term.
If any child process start function fails or returns an error
tuple or an erroneous value, the function returns
- {error,shutdown} and the supervisor terminates all
+ {error, {shutdown, Reason}} and the supervisor terminates all
started child processes and then itself with reason
shutdown.
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