[erlang-bugs] erlang:halt/2 doesn't flush by default as advertised

[José Valim]

According to the documentation<http://erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#halt-2>,
erlang:halt/2 should flush unless {flush,false} is given:

For integer Status the Erlang runtime system closes all ports and allows
> async threads to finish their operations before exiting. To exit without
> such flushing use Option as {flush,false}.


However, we noticed that erlang:halt(0, []) is not flushing at all. Looking
at the code, we were able to verify it:

https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/a5fc79292b9b018cd39d104a8cd2e79de141e3ad/erts/emulator/beam/bif.c#L3937

The value of flush should be initialized to 1.

Thank you!

PS: erlang:halt/0 and erlang:halt/1 **are** working as advertised.


*José Valim*
www.plataformatec.com.br
Skype: jv.ptec
Founder and Lead Developer
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