From 04731323678eff58f709b36f864d12aa08cfe6d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christopher Faulet <christopher@yakaz.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:49:38 +0200
Subject: Explain how dynamic child processes are stopped

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

(limited to 'lib/stdlib')

diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
index b4e81aba1f..9cc9b69dd9 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml
@@ -94,6 +94,10 @@
           instead the child specification identifier is used,
           <c>terminate_child/2</c> will return
           <c>{error,simple_one_for_one}</c>.</p>
+        <p>Because a <c>simple_one_for_one</c> supervisor could have many
+        children, it shuts them all down at same time. So, order in which they
+        are stopped is not defined. For the same reason, it could have an
+        overhead with regards to the <c>Shutdown</c> strategy.</p>
       </item>
     </list>
     <p>To prevent a supervisor from getting into an infinite loop of
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