From 102adf32f766dceee6f277c34111fbe9b8971647 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Siri Hansen <siri@erlang.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:07:29 +0200
Subject: Fix documentation about how supervisor handles crash in child's start
 function

---
 lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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

diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
index 1a64b7a2af..9021d02ade 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
@@ -294,10 +294,10 @@ child_spec() = {Id,StartFunc,Restart,Shutdown,Type,Modules}
           is a term with information about the error, and the supervisor
           terminates with reason <c>Term</c>.</p>
         <p>If any child process start function fails or returns an error
-          tuple or an erroneous value, the function returns
-          <c>{error, {shutdown, Reason}}</c> and the supervisor terminates all
-          started child processes and then itself with reason
-          <c>shutdown</c>.</p>
+          tuple or an erroneous value, the supervisor will first terminate
+          all already started child processes with reason <c>shutdown</c>
+          and then terminate itself and return
+          <c>{error, {shutdown, Reason}}</c>.</p>
       </desc>
     </func>
     <func>
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