From c2b6342cb57df5925acbacff0aea74358c9a5ffb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tomas Pihl <tomas@hapida.se>
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')

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 <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}</c> and the supervisor terminates all
+          <c>{error, {shutdown, Reason}}</c> and the supervisor terminates all
           started child processes and then itself with reason
           <c>shutdown</c>.</p>
       </desc>
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