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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/supervisor.xml | 4 |
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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 |