From 6c3d24ccbc597e6d31db1f559470cc59585fdf52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Siri Hansen <siri@erlang.org>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 11:17:24 +0200
Subject: Add system message 'terminate'

This is to be used when implementing synchronous stop of generic
behaviours and other 'sys special processes'.
---
 lib/stdlib/doc/src/sys.xml | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'lib/stdlib/doc')

diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/sys.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/sys.xml
index a46fa1289f..7fb82e0e7e 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/sys.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/sys.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 <erlref>
   <header>
     <copyright>
-      <year>1996</year><year>2013</year>
+      <year>1996</year><year>2014</year>
       <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
     </copyright>
     <legalnotice>
@@ -356,6 +356,17 @@
           installed.</p>
       </desc>
     </func>
+    <func>
+      <name name="terminate" arity="2"/>
+      <name name="terminate" arity="3"/>
+      <fsummary>Terminate the process</fsummary>
+      <desc>
+        <p>This function orders the process to terminate with the
+        given <c><anno>Reason</anno></c>. The termination is done
+        asynchronously, so there is no guarantee that the process is
+        actually terminated when the function returns.</p>
+      </desc>
+    </func>
   </funcs>
 
   <section>
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