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| author | Christopher Faulet <christopher@yakaz.com> | 2011-09-14 17:49:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Henrik Nord <henrik@erlang.org> | 2011-09-16 14:54:44 +0200 |
| commit | 04731323678eff58f709b36f864d12aa08cfe6d9 (patch) | |
| tree | 2c1646f7d690358e284296360d1da985a83228f8 /lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml | |
| parent | 42c581ddefd332fcadea696b5b2bedcdd575f14a (diff) | |
| download | erlang-04731323678eff58f709b36f864d12aa08cfe6d9.tar.gz | |
Explain how dynamic child processes are stopped
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
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 |