From 978ccb1fc2de4abc2d0d6b89e664ea6d8da1c663 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Siri Hansen <siri@erlang.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:39:45 +0100
Subject: Improve documentation on supervisor restart strategy

---
 system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'system/doc/design_principles')

diff --git a/system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml b/system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml
index a432f9458b..5b8fd604c8 100644
--- a/system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml
+++ b/system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml
@@ -160,10 +160,13 @@ init(...) ->
           be restarted.</p>
         <list type="bulleted">
           <item>A <c>permanent</c> child process is always restarted.</item>
-          <item>A <c>temporary</c> child process is never restarted.</item>
+          <item>A <c>temporary</c> child process is never restarted
+          (not even when the supervisor's restart strategy
+          is <c>rest_for_one</c> or <c>one_for_all</c> and a sibling's
+          death causes the temporary process to be terminated).</item>
           <item>A <c>transient</c> child process is restarted only if it
            terminates abnormally, i.e. with another exit reason than
-          <c>normal</c>.</item>
+          <c>normal</c>, <c>shutdown</c> or <c>{shutdown,Term}</c>.</item>
         </list>
       </item>
       <item>
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